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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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Rosenstein, Ofra; Meir, Irit; Miller, Paul – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
The study explored the contribution of prior knowledge and reliance on L1 syntactic knowledge to L2 written sentence comprehension. Participants, 102 native Hebrew speakers at three education levels (junior high, high school, and postsecondary), answered questions in two sentence categories: Semantically plausible sentences that readers can…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Native Language