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Swan, Kristen; Myers, Emily – Second Language Research, 2013
Adults tend to perceive speech sounds from their native language as members of distinct and stable categories; however, they fail to perceive differences between many non-native speech sounds without a great deal of training. The present study investigates the effects of categorization training on adults' ability to discriminate non-native…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Pretests Posttests, Auditory Perception