[BOOK][B] Intelligibility, oral communication, and the teaching of pronunciation

JM Levis - 2018 - books.google.com
A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

Perceptual narrowing in the context of increased variation: Insights from bilingual infants

K Byers‐Heinlein, CT Fennell - Developmental psychobiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Human infants become native‐language listeners through a process of perceptual
narrowing. Monolingual infants are initially sensitive to a wide range of language‐relevant …

[BOOK][B] Second language speech

L Colantoni, J Steele, PRE Neyra - 2015 - books.google.com
Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

Amodal atypical neural oscillatory activity in dyslexia: A cross-linguistic perspective

M Lallier, N Molinaro, M Lizarazu… - Clinical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been proposed that atypical neural oscillations in both the auditory and the visual
modalities could explain why some individuals fail to learn to read and suffer from …

Acoustic cues to perception of word stress by English, Mandarin, and Russian speakers

A Chrabaszcz, M Winn, CY Lin, WJ Idsardi - Journal of speech, language …, 2014 - ASHA
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 …

Perception of predictable stress: A cross-linguistic investigation

S Peperkamp, I Vendelin, E Dupoux - Journal of Phonetics, 2010 - Elsevier
Previous studies have documented that speakers of French, a language with predictable
stress, have difficulty distinguishing nonsense words that vary in stress position solely …

On the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations: experimental evidence from Japanese

S Peperkamp, I Vendelin, K Nakamura - Phonology, 2008 - cambridge.org
Japanese shows an asymmetry in the treatment of word-final [n] in loanwords from English
and French: while it is adapted as a moraic nasal consonant in loanwords from English, it is …

Individual differences in L2 acquisition of English phonology: The relation between cognitive abilities and phonological processing

I Darcy, H Park, CL Yang - Learning and Individual Differences, 2015 - Elsevier
Research on individual differences has identified factors constraining second language (L2)
acquisition in terms of a global performance; yet little progress has been made in identifying …

The development of comprehensible speech in L2 learners: A classroom study on the effects of short-term pronunciation instruction

J Gordon, I Darcy - Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
Develo** comprehensible speech is an important goal for L2 learners. At present, there is
clear evidence indicating that pronunciation instruction can help develop comprehensibility …

Limits on bilingualism revisited: Stress 'deafness' in simultaneous French–Spanish bilinguals

E Dupoux, S Peperkamp, N Sebastián-Gallés - Cognition, 2010 - Elsevier
We probed simultaneous French–Spanish bilinguals for the perception of Spanish lexical
stress using three tasks, two short-term memory encoding tasks and a speeded lexical …