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Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2022
This article reports on the second language (L2) perception of contrasts among British English monophthongs. This study has two aims: 1) to explore the discriminability of contrasts in L2 British English monophthongs; and 2) to test the perceptual assimilation model-L2 (PAM-L2) towards the ability to discriminate British English contrasts. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Zaltz, Yael; Roth, Daphne Ari-Even; Kishon-Rabin, Liat – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of external feedback in auditory perceptual learning of school-age children as compared with that of adults. Method: Forty-eight children (7-9 years of age) and 64 adults (20-35 years of age) conducted a training session using an auditory frequency discrimination (difference limen for…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Feedback (Response), Age Differences, Role
Tatman, Rachael – ProQuest LLC, 2017
All language use reflects the user's social identity in systematic ways. While humans can easily adapt to this sociolinguistic variation, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems continue to struggle with it. This dissertation makes three main contributions. The first is to provide evidence that modern state-of-the-art commercial ASR systems…
Descriptors: Dialects, Self Concept, Acoustics, Sociolinguistics
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Al Mahmoud, Mahmoud S. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This article reports on second language perception of non-native contrasts. The study specifically tests the perceptual assimilation model (PAM) by examining American learners' ability to discriminate Arabic contrasts. Twenty two native American speakers enrolled in a university level Arabic language program took part in a forced choice AXB…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Auditory Discrimination, North Americans, Second Language Learning
Hansen, Benjamin Bozzell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the hypothesis that the more vowel-like a consonant is, the more difficult it is for listeners to classify it as geminate or singleton. A perceptual account of this observation holds that more vowel-like consonants lack clear markers to signal the beginning and ending of the consonant, so listeners don't perceive the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonetics, Classification, Auditory Perception
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Kissling, Elizabeth M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
This study investigated second language (L2) learners' perception of L2 sounds as an individual difference that predicted their improvement in pronunciation after receiving instruction. Learners were given explicit pronunciation instruction in a series of modules added to their Spanish as a foreign language curriculum and were then tested on their…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Pronunciation Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Tyson, Na'im R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In an attempt to understand what acoustic/auditory feature sets motivated transcribers towards certain labeling decisions, I built machine learning models that were capable of discriminating between canonical and non-canonical vowels excised from the Buckeye Corpus. Specifically, I wanted to model when the dictionary form and the transcribed-form…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Auditory Discrimination, Phonetic Transcription
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Porretta, Vincent J.; Tucker, Benjamin V. – Second Language Research, 2015
The present investigation examines English speakers' ability to identify and discriminate non-native consonant length contrast. Three groups (L1 English No-Instruction, L1 English Instruction, and L1 Finnish control) performed a speeded forced-choice identification task and a speeded AX discrimination task on Finnish non-words (e.g.…
Descriptors: Role, Attention, Phonetics, Language Processing
Hao, Yen-Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated English speakers' perception of Mandarin sounds, aiming to answer three major questions. First, does the perceived similarity between Mandarin and English sounds affect learners' acquisition of Mandarin sounds? Second, do the groups with different amounts of Mandarin experience differ in their perception of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language, Phonemes
Kissling, Elizabeth Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Traditional pronunciation instruction and instruction in second language (L2) phonetics have been shown to improve learners' L2 accent in some, though certainly not all, cases. Learners in intermediate and advanced Spanish FL courses have shown modest improvement in the pronunciation of some L2 phones after receiving such instruction.…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Pronunciation Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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McKeown, Denis; Wellsted, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Psychophysical studies are reported examining how the context of recent auditory stimulation may modulate the processing of new sounds. The question posed is how recent tone stimulation may affect ongoing performance in a discrimination task. In the task, two complex sounds occurred in successive intervals. A single target component of one complex…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Stimulation, Intervals, Memory
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Deutsch, Diana; Feroe, John – Psychological Review, 1981
A model for the internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music is advanced. Pitch sequences are retained as hierarchical networks. At each level, elements are organized as structural units, in accordance with laws of figural goodness. Processing advantages of the system are discussed. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
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Cuddy, Lola L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
Three experiments studied the perception of tone sequences. Ratings of perceived structure and ease of recognition in transposition were both influenced by harmonic progression, the contour, and the excursion or repetition pattern within the sequence. Results are described in terms of the abstraction and analysis of levels of pitch relations.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Training
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Mottron, Laurent; Dawson, Michelle; Soulieres, Isabelle; Hubert, Benedicte; Burack, Jake – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
We propose an "Enhanced Perceptual Functioning" model encompassing the main differences between autistic and non-autistic social and non-social perceptual processing: locally oriented visual and auditory perception, enhanced low-level discrimination, use of a more posterior network in "complex" visual tasks, enhanced perception…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Models, Auditory Perception
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Oden, Gregg C. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
A model of phoneme identification is proposed which describes the process by which continuous acoustic featural information about the place of articulation and the voicing of speech sounds is integrated during phoneme identification. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Artificial Speech, Auditory Discrimination
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