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Sarah Alamri – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) (Best, 1995) claims listeners directly perceive articulatory gestures of the vocal tract rather than acoustic/auditory signals. Accordingly, the articulatory similarities and discrepancies between native and non-native sounds determine the perceptual assimilation patterns of non-native sounds. This study…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Arabic, Korean, Phonemes
AlMahmoud, Mahmoud S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The central goal of this dissertation is to explore the relative perceptibility of vowel epenthesis in English onset clusters by second language learners whose native language is averse to onset clusters. The dissertation examines how audible vowel epenthesis in different onset clusters is, whether this perceptibility varies from one cluster to…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning