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Lee, Aleuna; Perdomo, Michelle; Kaan, Edith – Second Language Research, 2020
Prosody signals important aspects of meaning, and hence, is crucial for language comprehension and learning, yet remains under-investigated in second-language (L2) processing. The present electrophysiology study investigates the use of prosody to cue information structure, in particular, the use of contrastive pitch accent (L+H*) to define the set…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Yavas, Mehmet; McLeod, Sharynne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Two member onset consonant clusters with /s/ as the first member (#sC onsets) behave differently from other double onset consonant clusters in English. Phonological explanations of children's consonant cluster production have been posited to predict children's speech acquisition. The aim of this study was to consider the role of the Sonority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Phonemes