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Yao Yao; Mengjie He; Fei Chen; Jiaqiang Zhu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Phonetic training has been found to be an effective way on second language (L2) learning, but the evidence is not conclusive regarding the effectiveness of different instructional approaches and possible interactions between language learners, training features, and outcome measures. This study aims to meta-analyze existing studies to…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Second Language Learning, Phonetics
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Diaz, Begona; Mitterer, Holger; Broersma, Mirjam; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The extent to which the phonetic system of a second language is mastered varies across individuals. The present study evaluates the pattern of individual differences in late bilinguals across different phonological processes. Fifty-five late Dutch-English bilinguals were tested on their ability to perceive a difficult L2 speech contrast (the…
Descriptors: Identification, Acoustics, Phonetics, Word Recognition
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Maxwell, Olga; Fletcher, Janet – World Englishes, 2009
This paper presents findings of an acoustic phonetic analysis of vowels produced by speakers of English as a second language from northern India. The monophthongal vowel productions of a group of male speakers of Hindi and male speakers of Punjabi were recorded, and acoustic phonetic analyses of vowel formant frequencies and vowel duration were…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Vowels, Phonetic Analysis, Foreign Countries
Bufe, Wolfgang – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1976
Handbooks of French phonetics disagree with the findings of phonetic research. Discussed are: differentiating between teaching pronunciation and auditory perception: the difference between acoustic and semantic hearing; and the importance of nasal regressive and progressive assimilation in contemporary spoken French. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, French, Language Instruction, Language Research
Klank, Linda J. K.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Paper based on research reported in a master's thesis submitted by Linda J. K. Klank at the University of Colorado. (DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, English (Second Language), Language Research, Phonetic Analysis
Lebel, Jean-Guy – 1968
Described in this speech are eight types of auditory discrimination commonly encountered by English speakers in French phonemes and word groups. Representative exercises, designed specifically for the teaching of French to English-speaking students, are provided for each variety presented. (CW)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, Auditory Discrimination, Contrastive Linguistics
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Gatbonton, Elizabeth – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
A report on a study exploring the relationship between observed variability in second-language speech and the process in which correct variants are acquired and incorrect ones are replaced. Three phonological variables in the English speech of French-Canadian second-language speakers in Montreal were investigated. The method, results and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
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Aronson, Howard I. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1964
An approach to a contrastive analysis of phonologies for pedagogic purposes is illustrated through the discussion of selected problems of interference which arise in the teaching of Russian pronunciation to native speakers of American English. The need for a recognition of a hierarchy of errors and the importance of the phonetic level of analysis…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Interference (Language)
Huot, France – 1978
The goal of this study is to discover the phonetic difficulties encountered in the acquisition of French as a second language by English-speaking children. The children are studying French in a total immersion situation without benefit of structural exercises or special French language laboratory classes. Of particular interest here is the extent…
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), French
Delattre, Pierre – IRAL, 1963
This is the first in a series of articles on general phonetic characteristics of American English. Language research techniques of spectrographic analysis, spectrographic synthesis, articulatory motion-picture study, and statistical calculation are briefly described. Thirty-five areas of phonetic difference for comparison of English to Spanish,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Audio Equipment, Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Streeter, Lynn A.; Landauer, Thomas K. – 1975
Very sharp discrimination functions for the timing of voice onset relative to stop release characterize perceptual boundaries between certain pairs of stop consonants for adult speakers of many languages. To explore how these discriminations depend on experience, their development was studied among Kikuyu children, whose native language contains…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Bantu Languages, Consonants
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Vago, Robert M.; Altenberg, Evelyn – 1977
This study identified two types of interference between Hungarian and English: phonetic and phonological interference. Four native speakers of Hungarian who are second language speakers of English read a passage containing a wide variety of sounds in different phonological environments. A set of rules mapping American English onto…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
Mueller, Theodore H.; Niedzielski, Henri – 1968
This study conducted at the University of Kentucky in 1967-68 tests the theory of interaction between discrimination and pronunciation through a field test. After a brief review of previous research in phonemic discrimination as related to foreign language learning, the procedures and results of the test are presented. The text used was "Basic…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Discrimination, College Language Programs, Discrimination Learning