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Incidental Nonspeech Auditory Learning Scaffolds Phonetic, Category, and Word Learning in a Foreign Language Classroom
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Seth Wiener; Timothy K. Murphy; Lori L. Holt – Language Learning, 2025
There is considerable lab-based evidence for successful incidental learning, in which a learner's attention is directed away from the to-be-learned stimulus and towards another stimulus. In this study, we extend incidental learning research into the language learning classroom. Three groups of adult second language (L2) learners (N = 52) engaged…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Phonetics
The Emergence of the Allophonic Perception of Unfamiliar Speech Sounds: The Effects of Contextual Distribution and Phonetic Naturalness
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Noguchi, Masaki; Hudson Kam, Carla L. – Language Learning, 2018
In human languages, different speech sounds can be contextual variants of a single phoneme, called allophones. Learning which sounds are allophones is an integral part of the acquisition of phonemes. Whether given sounds are separate phonemes or allophones in a listener's language affects speech perception. Listeners tend to be less sensitive to…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Phonemes, Acoustics
Incidental and Multimodal High Variability Phonetic Training: Potential, Limits, and Future Directions
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Saito, Kazuya; Hanzawa, Keiko; Petrova, Katya; Kachlicka, Magdalena; Suzukida, Yui; Tierney, Adam – Language Learning, 2022
Scholars have extensively investigated the effectiveness of high variability phonetic training (HVPT), that is, identification and discrimination of second language speech sounds produced by multiple speakers followed by trial-by-trial feedback. Building on the notion of incidental and multimodal learning in cognitive psychology (e.g., Lim &…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
The Perception of Fluency in Native and Nonnative Speech
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Bosker, Hans Rutger; Quené, Hugo; Sanders, Ted; de Jong, Nivja H. – Language Learning, 2014
Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency level. However, disfluencies (such as pauses, fillers, repairs, etc.) occur in both native and nonnative speech and it is as yet unclear how fluency raters weigh the fluency characteristics of native and nonnative…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication
Improving L2 Listeners' Perception of English Vowels: A Computer-Mediated Approach
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Thomson, Ron I. – Language Learning, 2012
A high variability phonetic training technique was employed to train 26 Mandarin speakers to better perceive ten English vowels. In eight short training sessions, learners identified 200 English vowel tokens, produced in a post bilabial stop context by 20 native speakers. Learners' ability to identify English vowels significantly improved in the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Tests, Phonetics, Native Speakers
The Acquisitional Value of Recasts in Instructed Second Language Speech Learning: Teaching the Perception and Production of English /?/ to Adult Japanese Learners
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Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning, 2013
The current study investigated the impact of recasts together with form-focused instruction (FFI) on the development of second language speech perception and production of English /?/ by Japanese learners. Forty-five learners were randomly assigned to three groups--FFI recasts, FFI only, and Control--and exposed to four hours of communicatively…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Experimental Groups, Pronunciation, Auditory Perception