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Huensch, Amanda; Nagle, Charlie – Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency in instructed contexts. It conceptually replicated studies by Munro and Derwing (1995a) and Derwing and Munro (1997), who found partial independence among the three speech…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Comprehension, Dialects
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Bernstein, Lynne E. – Language Learning, 2018
Lipreaders recognize words with phonetically impoverished stimuli, an ability that varies widely in normal-hearing adults. Lipreading accuracy for sentence stimuli was modeled with data from 339 normal-hearing adults. Models used measures of phonemic perceptual errors, insertion of text that was not in the stimulus, gender, and auditory speech…
Descriptors: Lipreading, Sentences, Predictor Variables, Accuracy
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Oller, D. Kimbrough – Language Learning, 1974
It is argued here that childhood phonological errors systematically simplify the child's inventory of phonetic elements and strings. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns