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Megan M. Dailey; Camille Straboni; Sharon Peperkamp – Second Language Research, 2024
During spoken word processing, native (L1) listeners use allophonic variation to predictively rule out word competitors and speed up word recognition. There is some evidence that second language (L2) learners develop an awareness of allophonic distributions in their L2, but whether they use their knowledge to facilitate word recognition online,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Language Variation, Native Language
Zhu, Wenhui; Lee, Sun-Hee; Zhang, Xinting – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study investigates the perception of the three Mandarin high vowels /i, u, y/ after dental, retroflex, and palatal fricatives and affricates (/s/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate][superscript voiceless glottal fricative]/; /[voiceless retroflex sibilant fricative]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless…
Descriptors: Vowels, Mandarin Chinese, English, Native Speakers
Shinohara, Yasuaki; Han, Chao; Hestvik, Arild – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study examined how discriminability and prototypicality of nonnative phones modulate the amplitude of the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) event-related brain potential. We hypothesized that if a frequently occurring (standard) stimulus is not prototypical to a listener, a weaker predictive memory trace will be formed and a smaller MMN will be…
Descriptors: Japanese, Vowels, Auditory Discrimination, Second Language Learning
Ramli, Izzad; Jamil, Nursuriati; Ardi, Norizah – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate and examined the eight vowels formant characteristic of Malay language. Previous research of Malay language only investigated six basic vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, /[schwa]/. The vowels /[open-mid back rounded vowel]/, /[open-mid front unrounded vowel]/ that usually exist in a dialect were not…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Vowels, Dialects, Phonetics
Vlahou, Eleni; Ueno, Kanako; Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara G.; Kopco, Norbert – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: We examined how consonant perception is affected by a preceding speech carrier simulated in the same or a different room, for different classes of consonants. Carrier room, carrier length, and carrier length/target room uncertainty were manipulated. A phonetic feature analysis tested which phonetic categories are influenced by the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
Yang, Jing; Xu, Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the acoustic profile and to evaluate the intelligibility of vowel productions in prelingually deafened, Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Twenty-five children with CIs and 20 age-matched children with normal hearing (NH) were recorded producing a list of Mandarin…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Deafness, Vowels, Acoustics
Amy E. Hutchinson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The present dissertation explores the effect of exposure to non-native speech via foreign film on non-native speech production and perception. In order to explore potential effects, two main experiments were developed, which examined French production and perception by monolingual native speakers of English before and after exposure to French…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Speech Communication, Pronunciation, French
Ménard, Lucie; Prémont, Amélie; Trudeau-Fisette, Pamela; Turgeon, Christine; Tiede, Mark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Objective: We aimed to investigate the production of contrastive emphasis in French-speaking 4-year-olds and adults. Based on previous work, we predicted that, due to their immature motor control abilities, preschool-aged children would produce smaller articulatory differences between emphasized and neutral syllables than adults. Method: Ten…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Preschool Children, Human Body, Articulation (Speech)
Rebei, Adnan; Anderson, Nathaniel D.; Dell, Gary S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Every language has unique phonotactics, general rules about how phonemes combine to make syllables. We know that people can implicitly learn new phonotactic rules in the laboratory, and these rules then affect their speech errors. Some types of rules, however, require a consolidation period before they influence speech errors. Two experiments are…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonetics, Phonemes, Error Patterns
Lee, Sue Ann S.; Iverson, Gregory K. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The present study examined the speech production of three-year-old Korean-English bilingual (KEB) children. English and Korean stops, as well as front vowels in both languages, were compared acoustically among the KEB children, then also measured against those of their age-equivalent monolingual counterparts. Evidence of distinctive phonetic…
Descriptors: Korean, English, Bilingualism, Young Children
Chung, Hyunju; Weismer, Gary – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Most acoustic and articulatory studies on /l/ have focused on either duration, formant frequencies, or tongue shape during the constriction interval. Only a limited set of data exists for the transition characteristics of /l/ to and from surrounding vowels. The aim of this study was to examine second formant (F2) transition…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, North American English, Vowels, Human Body
Ruqayyah Althubyani – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the role that phonetic convergence plays in the acquisition of L2 segments. In particular, it examined whether phonetic convergence towards native speakers could help Arabic-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English improve their pronunciation of four problematic English segments (/p, v, [open-mid front…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Phonetics
Allison, Kristen M.; Annear, Lucas; Annear, Lucas; Policicchio, Marisa; Hustad, Katherine C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study aimed to improve understanding of speech characteristics associated with dysarthria in children with cerebral palsy by analyzing segmental and global formant measures in single-word and sentence contexts. Method: Ten 5-year-old children with cerebral palsy and dysarthria and 10 age-matched, typically developing children…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Articulation (Speech), Young Children, Cerebral Palsy
Macrae, Toby – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: This clinical focus article provides readers with a description of the stimulus characteristics of 12 popular tests of speech sound production. Method: Using significance testing and descriptive analyses, stimulus items were compared in terms of the number of opportunities for production of all consonant singletons, clusters, and rhotic…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Morphemes, Phonemes, Vowels
Georgiou, Georgios P. – Language Learning and Development, 2022
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of auditory perceptual phonetic training on the identification and production of English vowels by Cypriot Greek children and adults. Another two groups of Cypriot Greek child and adult speakers served as controls. The trained groups participated in the pretest, training, and posttest phase,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Auditory Perception, Phonology