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Cho, Christine MoonKyoung; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Pitch perception plays a more important role in emotional communication in English than in Korean. Interpreting the semantic aspects of pitch levels therefore presents a challenge for Korean learners of English. This study investigated how 49 Korean learners of English perceived 20 English emotional utterances. Participants were asked to complete…
Descriptors: Intonation, Auditory Perception, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Communication
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Rachida Ganga; Haoyan Ge; Marijn E. Struiksma; Virginia Yip; Aoju Chen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
It has been proposed that second language (L2) learners differ from native speakers in processing due to either influence from their native language or an inability to integrate information from multiple linguistic domains in a second language. To shed new light on the underlying mechanism of L2 processing, we used an event-related potentials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Foote, Rebecca – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Research with native speakers indicates that, during word recognition, regularly inflected words undergo parsing that segments them into stems and affixes. In contrast, studies with learners suggest that this parsing may not take place in L2. This study's research questions are: Do L2 Spanish learners store and process regularly inflected,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing