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Kim, Jeong-eun; Cho, Yejin; Cho, Youngsun; Hong, Yeonjung; Kim, Seohyun; Nam, Hosung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This study examines the effects of asymmetrical mappings of L2 sounds to L1 sounds on real-time processing of L2 phonology. L1-Korean participants completed a self-paced listening (SPL) task paired with a picture verification (PV) task, in which an English sentence was presented word by word along with a picture that matched or mismatched the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Korean
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Broselow, Ellen; Chen, Su-I; Wang, Chilin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Discusses the simplification of forms ending in obstruents by native speakers of Mandarin, in particular two effects that are not obviously motivated by either the native- or the target-language grammars: a tendency to devoice final voiced obstruents and a tendency to maximize the number of bisyllabic forms in the output. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar, Interlanguage
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Flege, James Emil; Bohn, Ocke-Schwen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
A study compared how native speakers of Spanish and English produced four English word pairs that are morphologically related but differ in stress and vowel quality. The magnitude of differences observed suggests that second language learners acquire stress placement and vowel reduction in English on a word-by-word basis. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Patterns, Language Research