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Archila-Suerte, Pilar; Zevin, Jason; Bunta, Ferenc; Hernandez, Arturo E. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Sensorimotor processing in children and higher-cognitive processing in adults could determine how non-native phonemes are acquired. This study investigates how age-of-acquisition (AOA) and proficiency-level (PL) predict native-like perception of statistically dissociated L2 categories, i.e., within-category and between-category. In a similarity…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Research Methodology, Multidimensional Scaling, Classification
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Branum-Martin, Lee; Tao, Sha; Garnaat, Sarah; Bunta, Ferenc; Francis, David J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
There is increasing interest in the role of phonological awareness across languages. However, the role of phonological awareness in various languages may differ by features of the languages as well as by features of the speakers. The current meta-analysis catalogs these relations and examines factors that may have influenced how closely related…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Inferences, Meta Analysis, Age
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Bunta, Ferenc; Fabiano-Smith, Leah; Goldstein, Brian; Ingram, David – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
The present study investigated phonological whole-word measures and consonant accuracy in bilingual and monolingual children to investigate how target approximations drive phonological acquisition. The study included eight bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking 3-year-olds and their monolingual peers (eight Spanish and eight American English).…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Phonology