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Amanda Huensch – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study explored the effect of speaking task on midclause pausing characteristics in the L1 and L2 speech of the same speakers to gain further insights into the potential relationship between pause location and stages of speech production. Participants included English L1 learners of L2 French (n = 29) or Spanish (n = 27) from the publicly…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Speech, English
Theres Grüter; Jieun Kim; Hitoshi Nishizawa; Jue Wang; Raed Alzahrani; Yu-Tzu Chang; Hoan Nguyen; Michaela Nuesser; Akari Ohba; Sachiko Roos; Mayuko Yusa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study presents a conceptual replication of Birulés et al.'s (2020, Experiment 2) investigation of native and nonnative listeners' selective attention to a talker's mouth with the goal of better understanding the potentially modulating role of proficiency in listeners' reliance on audiovisual speech cues. Listeners' eye gaze was recorded while…
Descriptors: Attention, Native Language, Listening, Human Body
Nagle, Charles L.; Trofimovich, Pavel; O'Brien, Mary Grantham; Kennedy, Sara – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Comprehensibility, or ease of understanding, has emerged as an important construct in second language (L2) speech research. Many studies have examined the linguistic features that underlie this construct, but there has been limited work on behavioral and affective predictors. The goal of this study was therefore to examine the extent to which…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intelligibility, Speech
Nagle, Charles L.; Rehman, Ivana – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Listener-based ratings have become a prominent means of defining second language (L2) users' global speaking ability. In most cases, local listeners are recruited to evaluate speech samples in person. However, in many teaching and research contexts, recruiting local listeners may not be possible or advisable. The goal of this study was to hone a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Speech, Language Research
Nagle, Charles L.; Baese-Berk, Melissa M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 speech production. Although many studies have examined the link, they have done so with strikingly different conceptual foci and methods. Even studies that appear to use similar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech, Auditory Perception, Theory Practice Relationship
O'Brien, Mary Grantham – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
Much pronunciation research critically relies upon listeners' judgments of speech samples, but researchers have rarely examined the impact of methodological choices. In the current study, 30 German native listeners and 42 German L2 learners (L1 English) rated speech samples produced by English-German L2 learners along three continua: accentedness,…
Descriptors: German, Speech, Pronunciation, Research Methodology
Saito, Kazuya – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
The current project examined whether and to what degree age of acquisition (AOA), defined as the first intensive exposure to a second language (L2) environment, can be predictive of the end state of postpubertal L2 oral proficiency attainment. Data were collected from 88 experienced Japanese learners of English and two groups of 20 baseline…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Age
Bijvoet, Ellen; Fraurud, Kari – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This article makes a case for studying the perceptions that young people have of the ways of speaking of both themselves and others on the supposition that constructions of ambient sociolinguistic variation have an impact on the language development and use of individual language users. Such a study is particularly relevant in multilingual…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Young Adults, Language Variation
Cuza, Alejandro; Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Sanchez, Liliana – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
This study examines the acquisition of the featural constraints on clitic and null distribution in Spanish among simultaneous and sequential Chinese-Spanish bilinguals from Peru. A truth value judgment task targeted the referential meaning of null objects in a negation context. Objects were elicited via two clitic elicitation tasks that targeted…
Descriptors: Identification, Value Judgment, Semantics, Foreign Countries
Munro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M.; Morton, Susan L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
When understanding or evaluating foreign-accented speech, listeners are affected not only by properties of the speech itself but by their own linguistic backgrounds and their experience with different speech varieties. Given the latter influence, it is not known to what degree a diverse group of listeners might share a response to second language…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Effect Size, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers