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Zoe A. Zawadzki – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High variability pronunciation training (HVPT) has been found to be successful for training various segmentals, such as the challenging /l/-/[voiced alveolar approximant]/ contrast, and suprasegmental features such as tone and pitch accent. These studies have found that HVPT is an effective method not only in helping learners improve their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Millotte, Severine; Rene, Alice; Wales, Roger; Christophe, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Two experiments tested whether phonological phrase boundaries constrain online syntactic analysis in French. Pairs of homophones belonging to different syntactic categories (verb and adjective) were used to create sentences with a local syntactic ambiguity (e.g., [le petit chien "mort"], in English, the "dead" little dog, vs.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Language Acquisition