Italian L1 speakers of English L2 produce the same English sound as longer if spelled with
two than with one letter, following Italian grapheme-phoneme conversion rules. Do Italian …

Listeners adapt to the speech rate of talkers. Many studies of speech rate adaptation have
focused on the influence of rate information on the perception of word segmentation or …

Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of non-native gemination in the speech of
native (L1) Italian learners of a second language (L2), corresponding to double letters. We …

This chapter provides an overview of monolingual first language phonological acquisition
studied in typically develo** children in several Romance languages, including Catalan …

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of online language learning software for the
acquisition of pronunciation macro skills (comprehensibility and accentedness) and micro …

ABSTRACT Both Italian and Japanese use consonant length contrastively. We investigated
whether there is any difference between two groups of native Italian speakers with different …

Misperception of voiced and voiceless obstruent length in Italian by native Italian and native
Japanese speakers was compared. Both Italian and Japanese use consonant length …

This study builds on our previous research and provides additional analyses to determine if
there is a relationship between the ability to process consonant length in familiar and …

In this study we compared the duration ratios of native speakers of Cantonese, English,
French, and Japanese who produced non-native phonemic quantity contrasts in Japanese …

Chapter six discusses the findings of the project, their significance and implications. Results
are briefly summarised and their significance is discussed. Then, orthographyinduced …