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Alyssa Kermad – International Journal of Listening, 2024
Speech perception research has commonly relied on untrained listeners to provide impressionistic judgments of second language (L2) speech, and training listeners has been rare. The current study therefore explores the implications of training novice listeners (NLs) to rate accented speech. A total of 60 listeners were recruited, 30 who remained…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Undergraduate Students, Listening Comprehension
Lee, Dae-yong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As there is a growing population of non-native speakers worldwide, facilitating communication involving native and non-native speakers has become increasingly important. While one way to help communication involving native and non-native speakers is to help non-native speakers improve proficiency in their target language, another way is to help…
Descriptors: Generalization, Intercultural Communication, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Al-Kinany, Taif; Al-Abri, Abdullah; Ambusaidi, Hafid – English Language Teaching, 2022
The extant studies addressing second language phonetic perception assume that second language phonemes are perceived to be similar to first language phonemes, and tend to be substituted by learners of English as a foreign language. This study aimed to assess the perceptual relationship between the phonemes of English and the sound units of Omani…
Descriptors: Arabs, Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Levy, Helena; Konieczny, Lars; Hanulikova, Adriana – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Substantial individual differences exist in regard to type and amount of experience with variable speech resulting from foreign or regional accents. Whereas prior experience helps with processing familiar accents, research on how experience with accented speech affects processing of unfamiliar accents is inconclusive, ranging from perceptual…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Processing
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Lee, Shinsook; Kang, Jaekoo; Nam, Hosung – Second Language Research, 2022
This study investigates how second language (L2) listeners' perception is affected by two factors: the listeners' experience with the target dialect -- North American English (NAE) vs. Standard Southern British English (SSBE) -- and talkers' language background: native vs. non-native talkers; i.e. interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Scott, John Hamilton Gordon – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Second language (L2) phonological acquisition involves learning novel target-language sounds, variable forms of sounds that arise in different phonological contexts, and any phonotactic constraints that govern their appearance. Interlanguage (IL) grammars must adapt to represent sounds and constraints that are novel to the native language (L1)…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, German, Phonology
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Schmidt, Lauren B. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The present study examined second language (L2) development in the perceptual identification of a dialectal sound of the target language, through an investigation of the role of individual learner experiences in L2 phonological development. A total of 213 English-speaking learners of Spanish across five levels of study and with varying dialect…
Descriptors: Dialects, Spanish, Phonology, Second Language Learning
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Chen, Hsueh Chu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
This paper includes two interrelated studies. The first production study investigates the timing patterns of English as spoken by Chinese learners with different dialect backgrounds. The second comprehension study explores native and non-native speakers' assessments of the intelligibility of Chinese-accented English, and examines the effects of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Native Language, Chinese
Ziliak, Zoe Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigates adults' ability to change their phonetic systems in perception and production, specifically upon exposure to a new dialect in adulthood. It further addresses the relative importance of binary biological sex and socially constructed gender in predicting an individual's sociolinguistic variation. Perception and production…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Dialects, Auditory Perception, Phonetics
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Escudero, Paola; Boersma, Paul – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
A series of experiments shows that Spanish learners of English acquire the "ship-sheep" contrast in a way specific to their target dialect (Scottish or Southern British English) and that many learners exhibit a perceptual strategy found in neither Spanish nor English. To account for these facts as well as for the findings of earlier research on…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Language Research