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Wagensveld, Barbara; Segers, Eliane; van Alphen, Petra; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Studies have shown that prereaders find globally similar non-rhyming pairs (i.e., bell-ball) difficult to judge. Although this effect has been explained as a result of ill-defined lexical representations, others have suggested that it is part of an innate tendency to respond to phonological overlap. In the present study we examined this effect…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Rhyme, Phonology, Evaluative Thinking
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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