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Nagle, Charles L.; Baese-Berk, Melissa M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 speech production. Although many studies have examined the link, they have done so with strikingly different conceptual foci and methods. Even studies that appear to use similar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech, Auditory Perception, Theory Practice Relationship
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Jekiel, Mateusz; Malarski, Kamil – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The present study seeks to determine whether superior musical hearing is correlated with successful production of second language (L2) intonation patterns. Fifty Polish speakers of English at the university level were recorded before and after an extensive two-semester accent training course in English. Participants were asked to read aloud a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intonation, Music
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Song Yi Kim; Jeong-Im Han – Second Language Research, 2024
Korean learners of English are known to repair consonant clusters, which are not allowed in their native language, with an epenthetic vowel [close central unrounded vowel]. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether the perception-production link of such an illusory vowel in a second language (L2) is only within and not across…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vowels, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
Matthew Ayobami Ajibade – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effects of native language experience and phonetic properties on the discrimination of labial-velar versus labial and velar contrasts, as well as voicing contrasts in labials, velars, and labial-velars. Research indicates that phonological perceptions are influenced by native language experience and the specific…
Descriptors: Native Language, Pronunciation, Phonology, Human Body
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Danielle Daidone; Ryan Lidster; Franziska Kruger – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Our study proposes the use of a free classification task for investigating the dimensions used by listeners in their perception of nonnative sounds and for predicting the perceptual discriminability of nonnative contrasts. In a free classification task, participants freely group auditory stimuli based on their perceived similarity. The results can…
Descriptors: Classification, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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Wang, Tianlin; Potter, Christine E.; Saffran, Jenny R. – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Adults typically struggle to perceive non-native sound contrasts, especially those that conflict with their first language. Do the same challenges persist when the sound contrasts overlap but do not conflict? To address this question, we explored the acquisition of lexical tones. While tonal variations are present in many languages, they are only…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Perception, Intonation
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Shang, Nan; Styles, Suzy J. – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous studies have shown that Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers exhibit different patterns of cross-modal congruence for the lexical tones of Mandarin Chinese, depending on which features of the pitch they attend to. But is this pattern of language-specific listening a conscious cultural strategy or an automatic processing effect? If…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
Miroo Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Listeners selectively tune in to the most relevant cues for contrasting sounds, and this process impacts their perceptual sensitivity to these cues (Nosofsky, 1986; Pisoni, 1991). For bilingual listeners, recent work suggests a shared L1/L2 phonology system with the phonetic properties of each sound established in a language-specific way…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonology, Bilingualism
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Maria Kostromitina; Yongzhi Miao – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
English has become an international language (EIL) as speakers around the world use it as a universal means of communication. Accordingly, scholars have investigated different aspects of EIL affecting communicative success. Speech scholars have been interested in speech constructs like accentedness, comprehensibility, and acceptability (e.g., Kang…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Georgios P. Georgiou; Aretousa Giannakou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Although extensive research has focused on the perceptual abilities of second language (L2) learners, a significant gap persists in understanding how cognitive functions like phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and nonverbal intelligence (IQ) impact L2 speech perception. This study sets out to investigate the discrimination of L2 English…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Ability, Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory, Accuracy
Dong Jin Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research on language learners' attention suggests that manipulating attention is beneficial in the language learning process as it facilitates the "noticing" of specific linguistic aspects. The current study investigated the effects of directing learners' attention to segments and prosody in English phonetic training. Korean learners of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Iino, Atsushi; Wistner, Brian – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study investigated the degree to which Japanese learners of English accurately perceive English fricatives over time and the extent to which fricatives were misidentified. To train and measure perception skills, an online high-variability phonetic training program was used in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) class in Japan for eight…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yu, Vickie Y. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study examined the importance of syllable position, duration, and tone/pitch for the assignment of stress in Chinese hums. Twenty native Mandarin speakers and 20 native English speakers were asked to assign primary stress to two-syllable Chinese hums. The importance of acoustic cues for stress assignment was also evaluated. Our findings…
Descriptors: Native Language, Syllables, Acoustics, Cues
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Miquel Llompart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study presents a reanalysis of existing data to investigate whether a relationship between perception and production abilities regarding a challenging second-language (L2) phonological contrast is observable (a) when both modalities must rely on accessing stored lexical representations and (b) when there is an asymmetry in task focus between…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Barrios, Shannon L.; Rodriguez, Joselyn M.; Barriuso, Taylor Anne – Second Language Research, 2023
Adult learners acquire second language (L2) allophones with experience. We examine two mechanisms which may support the acquisition of allophonic variants in second language acquisition. One of the mechanisms is based on the distribution of phones with respect to their phonological context (i.e. phonological distribution). The other is based on…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonology
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