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Native English Speakers' Perception of Arabic Emphatic Consonants and the Influence of Vowel Context
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Direct linkHayes-Harb, Rachel; Durham, Kristie – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Native English speakers experience difficulty acquiring Arabic emphatic consonants. Arabic language textbooks have suggested that learners focus on adjacent vowels for cues to these consonants; however, the utility of such a strategy has not been empirically tested. This study investigated the perception of Arabic emphatic-plain contrasts by means…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Semitic Languages, Accuracy, English
Vokic, Gabriela – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
In this pilot study, the speech of 12 adult native speakers of English with intermediate to intermediate-high proficiency in Spanish as a second language (L2) was analyzed to determine whether L2 learners rely on distributional information in the process of L2 speech learning and if so, if similar or dissimilar distributional patterns of sounds…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers
