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Huensch, Amanda; Nagle, Charlie – Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency in instructed contexts. It conceptually replicated studies by Munro and Derwing (1995a) and Derwing and Munro (1997), who found partial independence among the three speech…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Comprehension, Dialects
Uzun, Tarik – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
Intelligibility is a critically important aspect for effective oral communication. This study explored salient (important) pronunciation errors and their relative roles in the intelligibility of nonnative speech based on listener judgments. Speech samples, collected from speakers with a Turkish as a native language (L1) background, were presented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Intelligibility, Oral Language
Schwartz, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2023
Two acoustic studies of voice onset time (VOT) in sibilant-stop (ST) consonant clusters, produced by first language (L1) speakers of Polish, are presented. In the first, a baseline study of L1 Polish comparing ST clusters with initial singleton stops, a small degree of VOT shortening after /s/ was found for /p/, but not /t/. The second study…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Elumalai, Kesavan Vadakalur; Abdullah, Mohammad Sufian; Sankar, Jayendira P.; Kalaichelvi, R. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The English language pronunciation is a sub-skill of speaking modules during the learning process of a second language. Accurate pronunciation is not followed enough by Bangladesh students in speaking English It was found that the participants face barriers while pronouncing English. However, it is ignored and even provided the least attention by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Foreign Students
Quam, Carolyn; Swingley, Daniel – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Children are adept at learning their language's speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, 2-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Pronunciation, Vocabulary Development, Intonation
Sadat-Tehrani, Nima – TESOL Journal, 2017
This article addresses the issue of teaching pronunciation in English as a second language (ESL) classes by specifically looking at the impact of teaching lexical stress rules and tendencies on learners' stress placement performance. Sixteen rules in the form of interactive worksheets were taught in three ESL classes at pre-intermediate,…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Worksheets
Jiao, Yishan; LaCross, Amy; Berisha, Visar; Liss, Julie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Subjective speech intelligibility assessment is often preferred over more objective approaches that rely on transcript scoring. This is, in part, because of the intensive manual labor associated with extracting objective metrics from transcribed speech. In this study, we propose an automated approach for scoring transcripts that provides…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonemes, Error Patterns, Scoring
Saito, Kazuya; Suzukida, Yui; Sun, Hui – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
The current study longitudinally examined the influence of aptitude on second language (L2) pronunciation development when 40 first-year Japanese university students engaged in practice activities inside and outside English-as-a-Foreign-Language classrooms over one academic year. Spontaneous speech samples were elicited at the beginning, middle,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
Crowther, Dustin; Trofimovich, Pavel; Saito, Kazuya; Isaacs, Talia – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
The current study investigated first language (L1) effects on listener judgment of comprehensibility and accentedness in second language (L2) speech. The participants were 45 university-level adult speakers of English from three L1 backgrounds (Chinese, Hindi, Farsi), performing a picture narrative task. Ten native English listeners used…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Fluency, Correlation
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2015
Every language has its own rhythm. Unlike many other languages in the world, English depends on the correct pronunciation of stressed and unstressed or weakened syllables recurring in the same phrase or sentence. Mastering the rhythm of English makes speaking more effective. Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Syllables, Grammar, Phonology
Bian, Fuying – English Language Teaching, 2013
Stress is one of the key suprasegmentals in English sound system. It plays an important role in intelligibility and comprehensibility. However, stress often poses problems for Chinese EFL Learners. Chinese learners of English often misplace the stress in English words and sentences which subsequently may interrupt the flow of communication and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hammerly, Hector – 1975
Types of hierarchies of pronunciation difficulty are discussed, and a hierarchy based on contrastive analysis plus informal observation is proposed. This hierarchy is less one of initial difficulty than of error persistence. One feature of this hierarchy is that, because of lesser learner awareness and very limited functional load, errors…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
Bannert, Robert – 1980
This paper reports results of an analysis of pronunciation problems and error patterns in the recorded speech of 38 immigrants to Sweden. The recordings, of both spontaneous and elicited speech in Swedish, were taken from an archival collection. The native-language groups studied include British English, Spanish, Polish, Finnish, Greek, Persian,…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, English