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Perceived Phonological Overlap in Second-Language Categories: The Acquisition of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese Native Listeners

Languages, 2020
Japanese learners of English can acquire /r/ and /l/, but discrimination accuracy rarely reaches native speaker levels. How do L2 learners develop phonological categories to acquire a vocabulary when they cannot reliably tell them apart? This study aimed
Michael D. Tyler
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Functional preference of the left inferior parietal lobule to second language reading

NeuroImage, 2023
Additional neural substance for reading in a second language has been reported by prior studies. However, to date, there has been little investigation into whether and how the brain's adaptation to a second language is induced by specific linguistic ...
Jia Zhang, Hehui Li, Manli Zhang, Zhengke Wang, Xiya Ao, Jie Jian, Na Wei, Haiyi Liu, Guosheng Ding, Xiangzhi Meng   +9 more
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Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness [PDF]

, 2014
Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, more importantly, the two ...
Boersma, Boersma, Butcher, Butcher, Corpus, Corpus, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Gluszek, Gluszek, Hirose, Hirose, Jusczyk, Jusczyk, Kohler, Kohler, Kuhl, Kuhl, Ladefoged, Ladefoged, Löfqvist, Löfqvist, Macha, Macha, Ogden, Ogden, Pavel Šturm, Radek Skarnitzl, Ridouane, Ridouane, Roach, Roach, Shih, Shih, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Smith, Smith   +47 more
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Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language. [PDF]

, 2006
This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals' performance
Bassetti, Benedetta
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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English [PDF]

, 2015
Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target
Anna Balas, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Best, Best, Brunner, Brunner, Bullock, Bullock, Chang, Chang, Cook, Cook, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Davidson, Davidson, Dilley, Dilley, Dogil, Dogil, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Garellek, Garellek, Geoffrey Schwartz, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Harada, Harada, Kraska, Kraska, Maddieson, Maddieson, Munro, Munro, Newlin, Newlin, Olson, Olson, Sancier, Sancier, Schwartz, Schwartz, Strange, Strange, Sypiańska, Sypiańska, Umeda, Umeda, Waniek, Waniek, Wiese, Wiese, Zampini, Zampini   +62 more
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English PhonologieS?

, 2022
Cette contribution propose que le système phonologique de l'anglais ne soit pas considéré comme un bloc uniforme mais au contraire comme un ensemble de sous-systèmes possédant des caractéristiques accentuelles, orthographiques, morphologiques, sémantiques ou encore segmentales spécifiques.
Dabouis, Quentin, Fournier, Pierre
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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]

, 2010
Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden, A. McEnery, A. McEnery, Alice Henderson, D. Temperley, J. Mompéan, J. Wells, J. Wells, M Celce-Murcia, P. Trudgill, Y. Shitara   +10 more
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Phonological processes in English connected speech: implications for L2 speech learning and communication

Cogent Education
Phonological processes, which encompass changes in sound patterns, can take place in both first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition. In particular, this research examines the significance of phonological processes in English connected speech ...
Sonthaya Rattanasak
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Aspecte experimentale ale dezvoltării competenţei fonologice a cadrelor didactice pe tot parcursul vieții

ACROSS, 2022
The article touches upon some experimental aspects of the formation of phonological competence. The questionnaire applied to teachers aimed at finding out their opinions referring to the problems that appear in the process of teaching/learning English ...
Alexandra BARBĂNEAGRĂ, Svetlana DERMENJI, Larisa USATÎI, Elena ȚAP, Ion BULICANU   +4 more
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How the Phoneme Inventory Changes its Shape: A Cognitive Approach to Phonological Evolution and Change

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2008
In this paper I propose an interpretation of a series of phonological changes in the history of English (including Old English Breaking and the early Modern English Great Vowel Shift) from a cognitive phonology perspective.
Javier Enrique Díaz Vera
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