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Ozakin, Alev Senem; Xi, Xiaotong; Li, Peng; Prieto, Pilar – Language Learning and Development, 2023
The present study investigates whether training second language pronunciation with tactile cues facilitates the production of non-native sounds involving accessible articulatory features. In a between-subjects experiment with a pretest-training-posttest design, 50 Turkish learners of English received audiovisual training on a set of target words…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Tactual Perception, Pronunciation Instruction, Task Analysis
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Lee, Chia-Cheng; Jhang, Yuna; Chen, Li-mei; Relyea, George; Oller, D. Kimbrough – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Prior research on ambient-language effects in babbling has often suggested infants produce language-specific phonological features within the first year. These results have been questioned in research failing to find such effects and challenging the positive findings on methodological grounds. We studied English- and Chinese-learning infants at 8,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Phonology, Foreign Countries