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Yu-An Lu; Cheng-Huan Lee – Second Language Research, 2024
This article provides a review of previous studies that have examined the effects of orthography on establishing contrastive phonological representations in second language acquisition and presents results from an original study on Mandarin speakers' production of English stops investigating how the presence of orthography affects the production…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Speech Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, Written Language
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Russak, Susie; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Second Language Research, 2017
This article examines the effect of phonological context (singleton vs. clustered consonants) on full phoneme segmentation in Hebrew first language (L1) and in English second language (L2) among typically reading adults (TR) and adults with reading disability (RD) (n = 30 per group), using quantitative analysis and a fine-grained analysis of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Phonemes
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Vokic, Gabriela – Second Language Research, 2011
This study analysed the extent to which literate native speakers of a language with a phonemic alphabetic orthography rely on their first language (L1) orthography during second language (L2) speech production of a language that has a morphophonemic alphabetic orthography. The production of the English flapping rule by 15 adult native speakers of…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemics, Alphabets, Familiarity