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Kang, Okim; Vo, Son Ca Thanh; Moran, Meghan Kerry – TESL-EJ, 2016
Research in second language speech has often focused on listeners' accent judgment and factors that affect their perception. However, the topic of listeners' application of specific sound categories in their own perceptual judgments has not been widely investigated. The current study explored how listeners from diverse language backgrounds weighed…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Phonology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Crowther, Dustin; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia; Saito, Kazuya – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The current study investigated task effects on listener perception of second language (L2) comprehensibility (ease of understanding). Sixty university-level adult speakers of English from 4 first language (L1) backgrounds (Chinese, Romance, Hindi, Farsi), with 15 speakers per group, were recorded performing 2 tasks (IELTS long-turn speaking task…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Pronunciation, Language Rhythm
Mazuka, Reiko; Cao, Yvonne; Dupoux, Emmanuel; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2011
In adults, native language phonology has strong perceptual effects. Previous work has shown that Japanese speakers, unlike French speakers, break up illegal sequences of consonants with illusory vowels: they report hearing "abna" as "abuna". To study the development of phonological grammar, we compared Japanese and French infants in a…
Descriptors: Phonology, Infants, French, Contrastive Linguistics
Zuijen, Titia L.; Plakas, Anna; Maassen, Ben A. M.; Maurits, Natasha M.; van der Leij, Aryan – Developmental Science, 2013
Dyslexia is heritable and associated with phonological processing deficits that can be reflected in the event-related potentials (ERPs). Here, we recorded ERPs from 2-month-old infants at risk of dyslexia and from a control group to investigate whether their auditory system processes /bAk/ and /dAk/ changes differently. The speech sounds were…
Descriptors: Infants, Dyslexia, At Risk Persons, Cognitive Processes
Ulbrich, Christiane – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
The present study examines the effect of cross-varietal prosodic characteristics of two German varieties, Northern Standard German (NG) and Swiss German (SG), on the production and perception of foreign accent in L2 Belfast English. The analysis of production data revealed differences in the realisation of nuclear pitch accents in L1 German and L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sentences, German, Native Language
Cornell, Sonia A.; Lahiri, Aditi; Eulitz, Carsten – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The precise structure of speech sound representations is still a matter of debate. In the present neurobiological study, we compared predictions about differential sensitivity to speech contrasts between models that assume full specification of all phonological information in the mental lexicon with those assuming sparse representations (only…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Models, Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech)
Vukovic, Mile; Sujic, Radmila; Petrovic-Lazic, Mirjana; Miller, Nick; Milutinovic, Dejan; Babac, Snezana; Vukovic, Irena – Brain and Language, 2012
Phonation is a fundamental feature of human communication. Control of phonation in the context of speech-language disturbances has traditionally been considered a characteristic of lesions to subcortical structures and pathways. Evidence suggests however, that cortical lesions may also implicate phonation. We carried out acoustic and perceptual…
Descriptors: Evidence, Articulation (Speech), Aphasia, Neurological Impairments
Onishi, Hiromi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the possible influence of language learners' second language (L2) on their perception of phonological contrasts in their third language (L3). Previous studies on Third Language Acquisition (TLA) suggest various factors as possible sources of cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of an L3. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Japanese, Asians
Huang, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation studies the realization of the rhythm of Taiwan Mandarin and focuses on the quality of its unstressed (neutral-tone) syllables. Taiwan Mandarin (TM) is often described as more syllable-timed than Standard Mandarin (SM). In TM, the unstressed syllables occur less frequently. The quality of the unstressed (neutral-tone) syllables…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Language Variation, Intonation
Schmidt, Anna Marie – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
Links between perception and production were investigated for two adult native speakers of Korean who participated in electropalatographic (EPG) treatment designed to teach phonological and articulatory contrasts between English /s/ - /[esh]/, /z/ - /[voiced palato-alveolar affricate]/, and /l/ - /[alveolar approximant]/. Participants were…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception
Neef, Nicole E.; Sommer, Martin; Neef, Andreas; Paulus, Walter; von Gudenberg, Alexander Wolff; Jung, Kristina; Wustenberg, Torsten – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: In individuals who stutter (IWS), speech fluency can be enhanced by altered auditory feedback, although it has adverse effects in control speakers. This indicates abnormalities in the auditory feedback loop in stuttering. Current motor control theories on stuttering propose an impaired processing of internal forward models that might be…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Stuttering, Phonemes, Phonology
Cabrelli Amaro, Jennifer Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Phonological Permeability Hypothesis (PPH, Cabrelli Amaro & Rothman, 2010) attempts to reconcile evidence suggesting some L2 learners, however rare, attain native-like L2 phonological systems with the observation that most do not. Considering existing L2 phonology research, it is not clear that phonological differences between early and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Adults, Children
Kuo, Chen-Hsiu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates how the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Groups are perceived, and the acoustic/phonetics correlates of listeners' judgments. A series of perception experiments have been conducted to scrutinize the following topics--Taiwanese tone neutralization, Tone Sandhi Group (TSG) as a prosodic domain, perceived boundary strength in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Correlation, Intonation, Computational Linguistics
Kaplan, Abby – Language and Speech, 2011
The phonological processes known as "lenition" have traditionally been explained as articulatory effort reduction. However, such a motivation for lenition has never been directly demonstrated; in addition, there are reasons to doubt the articulatory explanation.This paper focuses on a particular type of lenition (intervocalic…
Descriptors: Phonology, Classification, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception
Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.; Best, Catherine T.; Kroos, Christian; Tyler, Michael D. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
This paper tests the predictions of the vocabulary-tuning model of second language (L2) rephonologization in the domain of L2 segmental production. This model proposes a facilitating effect of adults' L2 vocabulary expansion on L2 perception and production and suggests that early improvements in L2 segmental production may be positively associated…
Descriptors: Vowels, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Correlation