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Language-Dependent Cue Weighting in Distinctive Feature: Evidence from the Perception of Mandarin High Vowels by Native English Speakers
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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
Prior Language Knowledge, the Language Environment, and Cognitive Resources Set the Stage for New Language Learning in Multilinguals
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Andrea A. Takahesu Tabori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I investigated how cognitive resources as well as formal, and informal language experience impact language learning in two studies. In the first study (Chapter 2), I examined the learning of Spanish grammatical gender by Chinese international students who were studying abroad in the US. The goal of that study was to uncover…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Asymmetry in Mandarin Affricate Perception by Learners of Mandarin Chinese
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Lai, Yi-hsiu – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Six Mandarin affricates (i.e., zh[ts], ch[ts[superscript h]], z[ts], c[ts[superscript h]], j[tc], q[tc[superscript h]), which are not universally present in other languages, have been extensively challenging for learners of Mandarin Chinese. In the current study, perception of these affricates was investigated via an experiment in which native…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Phonemes
DECODAGE DE LA CHAINE PARLEE ET APPRENTISSAGE DES LANGUES (SPEECH DECODING AND LANGUAGE LEARNING).
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COMPANYS, EMMANUEL – 1962
THIS PAPER WRITTEN IN FRENCH, PRESENTS A HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE DECODING OF SPEECH IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING. THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND OF THE DISCUSSION CONSISTS OF WIDELY ACCEPTED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS SUCH AS THE PHONEME, DISTINCTIVE FEATURES, NEUTRALIZATION, LINGUISTIC LEVELS, FORM AND SUBSTANCE, EXPRESSION AND CONTENT, SOUNDS, PHONEMES,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Distinctive Features (Language), Morphemes, Phonemes
Une verification de l'efficacite de la methode verbo-tonale: apprentissage du /y/ francais par des americanophones (Testing of the Efficiency of the Verbo-Tonal Method: The learning of the French /y/ by Speakers of American English)
Fort, Paul; And Others – Revue de Phonetique Appliquee, 1976
This article describes a study designed to test the basic notions of the verbo-tonal method of error correction in second language learning, a method based on an awareness of the phonological system of the speaker's native language and its influence on the phonological system of the target language. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Perception, Distinctive Features (Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Nasales et orales dites correspondantes (Nasals and So-called Corresponding Orals).
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Calbris, G. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Analyzes the physiological, acoustic, and auditory reasons for errors in the pronunciation of French nasal vowels by students, and suggests techniques for overcoming the difficulties identified. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Distinctive Features (Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Papers in Contrastive Phonetics. Jyvaskyla Cross-Language Studies, No. 7.
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Lehtonen, Jaakko, Ed.; Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1979
Four papers report on phonetic differences between Finnish and English, with pedagogical implications for teaching English as a second language. "The English /ptk/-/bdg/ Distinction: Data and Discussion" by Kari Suomi is a survey of recent work on the phonetic parameters of the fortis/lenis distinction. The distinction…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)