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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Onischik, Elena; Dragoy, Olga – Second Language Research, 2022
This study examines the role of cross-linguistic transfer versus general processing strategy in two groups of heritage speakers (n = 28 per group) with the same heritage language -- Russian -- and typologically different dominant languages: English and Estonian. A group of homeland Russian speakers (n = 36) is tested to provide baseline…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Finno Ugric Languages, Transfer of Training
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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Winn, Matthew; Lin, Candise Y.; Idsardi, William J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study investigated how listeners' native language affects their weighting of acoustic cues (such as vowel quality, pitch, duration, and intensity) in the perception of contrastive word stress. Method: Native speakers (N = 45) of typologically diverse languages (English, Russian, and Mandarin) performed a stress identification…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Auditory Perception, Suprasegmentals
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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Jiang, Nan – Second Language Research, 2014
The study uses an elicited imitation (EI) task to examine the effect of the native language on the use of the English nongeneric definite article by highly proficient first-language (L1) Spanish and Russian speakers and to test the hierarchy of article difficulty first proposed by Liu and Gleason (2002). Our findings suggest that there is a clear…
Descriptors: Native Language, Native Speakers, English, Russian