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The Effect of Age on the Acquisition of Second Language Prosody
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Huang, Becky H.; Jun, Sun-Ah – Language and Speech, 2011
This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N = 10 in each group) with varying AoA in the United States and ten native speakers of English as controls participated in the study. All participants read a paragraph of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, North American English
Elicited Imitation in Second Language Learners
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Hamayan, Else; And Others – Language and Speech, 1977
Finds developmental differences in the abilities of eight-year-old, eleven-year-old, and adult second language learners to repeat certain grammatical sentence structures. (RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Developmental Stages
The Hebrew Vowel System: Raw and Normalized Acoustic Data.
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Most, Tova; Amir, Ofer; Tobin, Yishai – Language and Speech, 2000
Identified the acoustic features of the vowels produced by Hebrew speakers differing in age and sex. Ninety speakers were recorded. Vowels were presented in a nonword context that was placed in a meaningful Hebrew sentence. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Foreign Countries
What Does More Time Buy You? Another Look at the Effects of Long-Term Residence on Production Accuracy of English / [inverted r] / and / l / by Japanese Speakers
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Larson-Hall, Jenifer – Language and Speech, 2006
This study tested the issue of whether extended length of residence (LOR) in adulthood can provide sufficient input to overcome age effects. The study replicates Flege, Takagi, and Mann (1995), which found that 10 out of 12 Japanese learners of English with extensive residence (12 years or more) produced liquids as accurately as native speakers of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age, Second Languages, Native Speakers