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The Role of Native Language and the Fundamental Design of the Auditory System in Detecting Rhythm Changes
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Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Gómez, David Maximiliano; Samuel, Arthur G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: We investigated whether rhythm discrimination is mainly driven by the native language of the listener or by the fundamental design of the human auditory system and universal cognitive mechanisms shared by all people irrespective of rhythmic patterns in their native language. Method: In multiple experiments, we asked participants to listen…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Spanish, French, German
Utterance-Final Lengthening Is Predictive of Infants' Discrimination of English Accents
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White, Laurence; Floccia, Caroline; Goslin, Jeremy; Butler, Joseph – Language Learning, 2014
Infants in their first year manifest selective patterns of discrimination between languages and between accents of the same language. Prosodic differences are held to be important in whether languages can be discriminated, together with the infant's familiarity with one or both of the accents heard. However, the nature of the prosodic cues that…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Patterns, English, Language Variation
Cross-Language Perception of Cantonese Vowels Spoken by Native and Non-Native Speakers
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So, Connie K.; Attina, Virginie – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
This study examined the effect of native language background on listeners' perception of native and non-native vowels spoken by native (Hong Kong Cantonese) and non-native (Mandarin and Australian English) speakers. They completed discrimination and an identification task with and without visual cues in clear and noisy conditions. Results…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE SOUND SYSTEMS. CONTRASTIVE STRUCTURE SERIES.
AGARD, FREDERICK B.; DI PIETRO, ROBERT J. – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants
THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN, A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE SOUND SYSTEMS. CONTRASTIVE STRUCTURE SERIES.
MOULTON, WILLIAM G. – 1962
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants
THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH, A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE SOUND SYSTEMS. CONTRASTIVE STRUCTURE SERIES.
BOWEN, J. DONALD; STOCKWELL, ROBERT P. – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
EMPIRICAL STUDIES RELATED TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO AMERICAN STUDENTS.
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CLARK, JOHN L.D. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL FIVE RELATED EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED IN AREAS PERTAINING TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO NATIVE SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. THE FIRST TWO EXPERIMENTS SOUGHT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ACCEPTABILITY OF 38 ENGLISH PHONEMES TO NATIVE FRENCH LISTENERS AT EACH OF TWO ACCEPTABILITY LEVELS--PHONEMIC AND…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics