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Alyssa Kermad – International Journal of Listening, 2024
Speech perception research has commonly relied on untrained listeners to provide impressionistic judgments of second language (L2) speech, and training listeners has been rare. The current study therefore explores the implications of training novice listeners (NLs) to rate accented speech. A total of 60 listeners were recruited, 30 who remained…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Undergraduate Students, Listening Comprehension
Archibald, John – Second Language Research, 2023
In this research note I want to address some misunderstandings about the construct of redeployment and suggest that we need to fit these behavioural data from Yang, Chen and Xiao (YCX) into a broader context. I will suggest that these authors' work is not just about the failure of three models to predict equivalence classification. Equivalence…
Descriptors: Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics, Mandarin Chinese, Russian
Foltz, Anouschka – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
While monolingual speakers can use contrastive pitch accents to predict upcoming referents, bilingual speakers do not always use this cue predictively in their L2. The current study examines the role of recent exposure for predictive processing in native German (L1) second language learners of English (L2). In Experiment 1, participants followed…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Sonya Bird; Rae Anne Claxton; Maida Percival – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
As is typical across Turtle Island, the Hul'q'umi'num' (Coast Salish) language revitalization movement is being carried by adult language learners (Haynes 2010; McIvor 2015) but becoming a proficient Hul'q'umi'num' speaker is challenging given the complexity of its sound system. In this paper, we share our experiences using the speech analysis…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation
Frantz, Kelly – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019
This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to trace changes in one learner's repair practices during a repetitive storytelling activity in an intermediate-level ESL classroom. An analysis of the learner's phonological and grammatical repairs is guided by two questions: How are the repair sequences organized, and what changes occur in the sequences…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Story Telling, Repetition
Yi, Paige – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
This paper sets out to peruse the role of various theories or more precisely, hypotheses invoked in second language acquisition (SLA) research by surveying three empirical studies pertaining to the critical period hypothesis in the SLA of phonetics and phonology. In particular, the three studies reviewed are titled in chronological order as (1)…
Descriptors: Role, Linguistic Theory, Age Differences, Second Language Learning
Golachowska, Ewa; Ostrówka, Malgorzata – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This article is based on texts recorded during field studies carried out in Daugavpils in the summer of 2019. It compares the language of two representatives of older-generation intelligentsia and juxtaposes the findings with materials from an unpublished doctoral thesis by Malgorzata Ostrówka "Wspólczesna polszczyzna mówiona na Lotwie"…
Descriptors: Polish, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Dialects
Alharbi, Amjad; Alqreeni, Gaida; Alothman, Hissah; Alanazi, Shatha; Omar, Abdulfattah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study is concerned with comparing the pronunciation in Southern Welsh, a Celtic language, and Cockney, an English dialect, regarding the place of articulation. The study uses a comparative method to shed light on the similarities and differences between the two accents. The data were collected from YouTube videos of speakers of Southern Welsh…
Descriptors: Welsh, English, Language Variation, Dialects
Olson, Daniel J. – Language Learning, 2019
This study employed a targeted phonetic instruction to explore the mechanisms that underpin second language (L2) phonetic acquisition. Broadly, two general approaches to phonetic acquisition have been previously proposed. A segmental approach suggests that learners acquire a series of individual, discrete phonemes (e.g., Flege, 1995), while a…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Li, Feng – English Language Teaching, 2016
Much research has been conducted on factors that impact on second language (L2) speech production in light of the age of L2 acquisition, the length of residence in the L2 environment, motivation, the amount of first language (L1) usage, etc. Very little of this research has taken the perspective of interference between L1 and L2, especially with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Native Language, Pronunciation
Simonchyk, Ala; Darcy, Isabelle – Second Language Research, 2023
The study investigates the relationship between lexical encoding and production in order to establish whether learners are able to produce a difficult contrast in words that they merged in their mental lexicon. Forty American English learners of Russian were tested on their production and lexical encoding of familiar and highly-frequent words with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Ernesto R. Gutierrez Topete – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In phonetics research, language alternation--including code switching (speaker-initiated) and cued switching (researcher-prompted)--can be used as a tool to investigate various aspects of speech production and perception in bilingual or multilingual speakers (Bullock & Toribio, 2009a). Studies on the production of voice onset time (VOT) during…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism, Spanish
Lev-Ari, Shiri; van Heugten, Marieke; Peperkamp, Sharon – Cognitive Science, 2017
Foreign-accented speech is generally harder to understand than native-accented speech. This difficulty is reduced for non-native listeners who share their first language with the non-native speaker. It is currently unclear, however, how non-native listeners deal with foreign-accented speech produced by speakers of a different language. We show…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
Solon, Megan; Long, Avizia Y.; Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study tests the theoretical predictions regarding effects of increasing task complexity (Robinson, 2001a, 2001b, 2007, 2010; Robinson & Gilabert, 2007) for second language (L2) pronunciation. Specifically, we examine whether more complex tasks (a) lead to greater incidence of pronunciation-focused language-related episodes (LREs) and (b)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis, Pronunciation, Phonetics