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Doa’a Faiz Al-Momani; Fatima Z. Al-Qudah; Sa’ida Sayyed – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Optimality theory (OT) is the latest model of phonology which views the language acquisition process as a way of reordering universal constraints provided by Universal Grammar (UG) according to the language-specific grammar. It, therefore, presents a more promising model towards language universalities. This study aims to utilize the OT framework…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Standard Spoken Usage
Ahmed Saad Almutiri – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigates acoustically one of long-term debated phonetic characteristics, the so-called Arabic voiced pharyngeal fricative /[voiced pharyngeal fricative]/. Most recent studies have found the Arabic pharyngeal to be approximant, while others have categorized it as a stop in careful speech, and still others have suggested it is a…
Descriptors: English, Arabic, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Quam, Carolyn; Swingley, Daniel – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Children are adept at learning their language's speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, 2-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Pronunciation, Vocabulary Development, Intonation
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Desmeules-Trudel, Félix; Zamuner, Tania S. – Second Language Research, 2023
Spoken word recognition depends on variations in fine-grained phonetics as listeners decode speech. However, many models of second language (L2) speech perception focus on units such as isolated syllables, and not on words. In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated how fine-grained phonetic details (i.e. duration of nasalization on…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Word Recognition, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Chiu-ching Tseng – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates Voice Onset Time (VOT), which serves as an essential property for differentiating plosive consonants in L1 and L2 Mandarin Chinese. It surveys VOT variations and demonstrates that they are affected by several phonetic and phonological properties, e.g., lexical tone, place of articulation (POA), speech rate,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Phonemes
Margarethe McDonald – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Language exposure plays a large role in language acquisition, and bilingual children must acquire both of their languages in environments that typically include abundant speech variability. The specific goals of this dissertation were to examine how speech exposure affected phonological retuning and lexical access in bilingual children's second…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Language
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Dalola, Amanda; Bullock, Barbara E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
The data from this study investigate phrase-final vowel devoicing in Metropolitan French among L1 and L2 speakers, in terms of number of times a speaker devoices a phrase-final high vowel and percentage of the vowel that is devoiced. The goal is to assess whether experienced L2 speakers use style-based variation in response to the same factors as…
Descriptors: French, Vowels, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Geçkin, Vasfiye – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Variability in the form of article (i.e., a and the) omissions and stressing has been attributed to a mismatch between first (L1) and second language (L2) prosodic and syntactic structures. An overlap between the L1 and L2 systems, on the other hand, is expected to contribute to native-like article productions. This case study aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
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Falkert, Anika – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2016
The aim of this paper is to offer a critical discussion of the role of native and foreign accents in L2 pronunciation teaching. Several studies concluded that classroom practices of grammar instruction are strongly influenced by teaching cultures. We will examine whether this is also the case for pronunciation teaching. While the CEFR…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), French, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
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Salameh, Mohammad Yahya Bani; Abu-Melhim, Abdel-Rahman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The aim of this paper is to explore the phonetic nature of vowels in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Although Arabic is a Semitic language, the speech sound system of Arabic is very comprehensive. Data used for this study were elicited from the standard speech of nine informants who are native speakers of Arabic. The researchers used themselves as…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Modern Languages, Phonetics, Vowels
Drake, Derek – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation presents new research on the "Bavarian Quantity Law" (the BQL) in the northern Bavarian dialect of Hahnbach. Building upon earlier investigation of the BQL (cf. Bannert 1976a,b for Central Bavarian) this study examines the historical, phonological, and phonetic motivations for this feature as well the variability in its…
Descriptors: Dialects, History, Phonology, Phonetics
Xin Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the past few decades, there has been considerable effort to find the mechanisms through which adult listeners can accommodate the rampant phonetic variation in natural speech. My dissertation concerns one source of variability: phonetic variation in speech produced by individuals with foreign accents. Mounting evidence shows that listeners…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Language Variation
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Davidson, Lisa; Wilson, Colin – Second Language Research, 2016
Recent research has shown that speakers are sensitive to non-contrastive phonetic detail present in nonnative speech (e.g. Escudero et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2014). Difficulties in interpreting and implementing unfamiliar phonetic variation can lead nonnative speakers to modify second language forms by vowel epenthesis and other changes. These…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Phonetics, Speech
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Kitamura, Christine; Panneton, Robin; Best, Catherine T. – Child Development, 2013
The time frame for infants' acquisition of language constancy was probed, using the phonetic variation in a rarely heard accent (South African English) or a frequently heard accent (American English). A total of 156 Australian infants were tested. Six-month-olds looked longer to Australian English than less commonly heard South African accent, but…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
Smith, Jerry – Online Submission, 2015
This paper discusses the similarities between the Bible record of the Tower of Babel and the resulting confusion of languages and how it relates to modern times and the trend we see of English as an International Language (EIL). This paper then briefly examines the trend of being culturally sensitive in EIL by accepting cultural or "world…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Phonetics
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