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Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2022
This article reports on the second language (L2) perception of contrasts among British English monophthongs. This study has two aims: 1) to explore the discriminability of contrasts in L2 British English monophthongs; and 2) to test the perceptual assimilation model-L2 (PAM-L2) towards the ability to discriminate British English contrasts. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Li, Ying – English Language Teaching, 2016
Language learners' language experience is predicted to display a significant effect on their accurate perception of foreign language sounds (Flege, 1995). At the superasegmental level, there is still a debate regarding whether tone language speakers are better able to perceive foreign lexical tones than non-tone language speakers (i.e Lee et al.,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Accuracy, Tone Languages