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Perception Abilities of L1 Cypriot Greek Listeners--Types of Errors Involving Plosive Consonants in L2 English
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Kkese, E.; Petinou, K. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
This paper investigates the difficulties adult second language (L2) users of English encounter with plosive consonants in the L2. It presents the results of a task examining the acquisition of plosive voicing contrasts by college students with Cypriot Greek (CG) linguistic background. The task focused on the types of errors involving plosive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Can Captioned Video Benefit Second Language Pronunciation?
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Wisniewska, Natalia; Mora, Joan C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study investigated the potential benefits of extended exposure to captioned videos for second language pronunciation. We tested 90 L2 adult learners of English on speech processing skills (segmentation, speed of lexical access, and sentence processing) and phonological accuracy in perception (ABX discrimination) and production…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Electrophysiological Responses to Coarticulatory and Word Level Miscues
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Archibald, Lisa M. D.; Joanisse, Marc F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
The influence of coarticulation cues on spoken word recognition is not yet well understood. This acoustic/phonetic variation may be processed early and recognized as sensory noise to be stripped away, or it may influence processing at a later prelexical stage. The present study used event-related potentials (ERPs) in a picture/spoken word matching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Word Recognition, Cues
A Longitudinal Acoustic Study of the Effects of the Radial Forearm Free Flap Reconstruction on Sibilants Produced by Tongue Cancer Patients
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Laaksonen, Juha-Pertti; Rieger, Jana; Harris, Jeffrey; Seikaly, Hadi – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Acoustic properties of 980 tokens of sibilants /s, z, [approximately]/ produced by 17 Canadian English-speaking female and male tongue cancer patients were studied. The patients had undergone tongue resection and tongue reconstruction with a radial forearm free flap (RFFF). The spectral moments (mean, skewness) and frication duration were analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Articulation (Speech), Patients, Cancer
Effects of Training on the Acoustic-Phonetic Representation of Synthetic Speech
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Francis, Alexander L.; Nusbaum, Howard C.; Fenn, Kimberly – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: Investigate training-related changes in acoustic-phonetic representation of consonants produced by a text-to-speech (TTS) computer speech synthesizer. Method: Forty-eight adult listeners were trained to better recognize words produced by a TTS system. Nine additional untrained participants served as controls. Before and after training,…
Descriptors: Cues, Artificial Speech, Phonetics, Phonemes
Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of Progressive Speech Degeneration: A Case Study
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Ball, Martin J.; Code, Chris; Tree, Jeremy; Dawe, Karen; Kay, Janice – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
In this paper we report on an adult male participant with a rare form of progressive speech degeneration. We present acoustic phonetic data on his vowel and consonant production, and describe his prosody and syllable structure. We suggest possible phonological analyses of his speech, concluding that a gestural approach to phonology best…
Descriptors: Males, Speech Impairments, Acoustics, Phonetics