Tashlhiyt is a low-resource language with respect to acoustic databases, language corpora,
and speech technology tools, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. This …

Some previous studies report that increased experience with a second language (L2) may
result in a more target-like perception and production in the L2, as well as in a less native …

Even the most seemingly monolingual places are shaped in space and time by different
languages meeting. Most often, when languages meet, they are brought together by humans …

This study reports syllable position effects on second language (L2) Portuguese speech
perception, revealing that L2 segmental learning may be prone to an influence from the …

The acquisition of Italian stop consonants by Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners has
hardly been investigated. This study was designed to fill this gap. To investigate Chinese …

This paper presents the first sociophonetic study of Sanapaná (Enlhet-Enenlhet), spoken by
around one thousand people in Paraguay. It examines the effects of L2 (Spanish/Guaraní) …

Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2)
learners' ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features required are either …

This research investigated contrastive perception of L1 phonological categories in Albanian–
English bilinguals who returned to Albania after living abroad for over on average a decade …

Research addressing second language (L2) speech is expanding. Studies increasingly
demonstrate that a learner's first language (L1) filters the L2 input, resulting in learners …

This study analyses the relationship between native English speakers' perception and
production of the novel French/y/–/u/contrast. Acoustic data were extracted from the learners' …