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Hu, Wei; Tao, Sha; Li, Mingshuang; Liu, Chang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how the distinctive establishment of 2nd language (L2) vowel categories (e.g., how distinctively an L2 vowel is established from nearby L2 vowels and from the native language counterpart in the 1st formant [F1] × 2nd formant [F2] vowel space) affected L2 vowel perception. Method: Identification…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vowels, Chinese, English
Nicole Irene Mirea – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Phonotactic patterns are generalizations that govern the order of consonants and vowels, within words and syllables. Certain second-order phonotactic patterns--those that relate multiple sounds within a syllable, such as "if the vowel is [near-close near-front unrounded vowel], then [s] can only appear at the end of the…
Descriptors: Generalization, Prior Learning, Speech Communication, Phonemes
Ander Beristain Murillo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates language-specific acoustic and aerodynamic phenomena in language contact situations. Whereas most work on second language and bilingual phonology has focused on individual consonants and vowels, this project examines patterns of coarticulation in the two languages of Spanish-English and French-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Heritage Education, Bilingualism
Immonen, Katja; Peltola, Kimmo U.; Tamminen, Henna; Alku, Paavo; Peltola, Maija S. – Second Language Research, 2023
Children are known to be fast learners due to their neural plasticity. Learning a non-native language (L2) requires the mastering of new production patterns. In classroom settings, learners are not only exposed to the acoustic input, but also to the unfamiliar grapheme-phoneme correspondences of the L2 orthography. We tested how 9-10-year-old…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Linguistic Input
Kojima, Chisato – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Some contrasts in the second language (L2) impose difficulty in processing for learners, especially when these contrasts are not used phonemically in a learner's first language (L1). This thesis is to examine how American English speakers learning Japanese discriminate and store information regarding the L2 contrasts as a part of their lexicon…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonemes
Song, Jae Yung; Eckman, Fred – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Research attempting to understand the intermediate stages of first-language acquisition and disordered speech has led to the discovery of covert contrast. A covert contrast is a statistically reliable difference between phonemes that is produced by a language learner, but in a way that cannot be heard readily by a listener of the target language.…
Descriptors: Vowels, Human Body, Phonemes, English (Second Language)
Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2020
Perceptual assimilation is a well-known task; however, there is no study on the assimilation pattern of the English monophthongs by L2 Thai learners. The aims of this study are to explore the perceptual assimilation patterns of the British English monophthongs to Thai monophthongs by L2 Thai learners and to examine the effect of L2 experience on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Thai
Eckman, Fred; Iverson, Gregory K. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
We present findings of an investigation into the acquisition of the English /s/-/esh/ contrast by native speakers of Korean and Japanese. Both of these languages have the phones [s] and [esh], and both languages exhibit a pattern--or motivate a rule--whereby /s/ is realized as [esh] before the vowel [i] and the glide [j]--that is, high front…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Phonology, Phonemes
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