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Syllable Position Effects in the Perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /[voiced alveolar tap or flap]/ by L1-Mandarin Learners
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Chao Zhou; Anabela Rato – Second Language Research, 2024
This study reports syllable position effects on second language (L2) Portuguese speech perception, revealing that L2 segmental learning may be prone to an influence from the suprasegmental level. The results show that first language (L1) Mandarin learners had diminished performance on the discrimination between the target Portuguese liquids (/l/…
Descriptors: Syllables, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
Cross-Linguistic Similarity in L2 Speech Learning: Evidence from the Acquisition of Russian Stop Contrasts by Mandarin Speakers
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Yang, Yuxiao; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Xiao, Qi – Second Language Research, 2022
This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic similarity in the acquisition of Russian initial stop contrasts by Chinese learners, addressing two specific research questions: (1) How similar are Russian voiced stops to Mandarin stops for Chinese learners?; and (2) How can the speech learning model (SLM) be applied to account for the…
Descriptors: Russian, Contrastive Linguistics, Phonemes, Mandarin Chinese