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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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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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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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Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English [PDF]

, 2012
This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a word-initial vowel.
Schwartz, Geoffrey
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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
openaire   +1 more source

Research methods and intelligibility studies

, 2010
This paper first briefly reviews the concept of intelligibility as it has been employed in both English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE) research.
SEWELL, Andrew John
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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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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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Liverpool English. [PDF]

, 2007
Liverpool English (LE) is the variety of English spoken in Liverpool and much of the surrounding county of Merseyside, in the north-west of England. After London, the north-west of England is the most densely populated of all regions in England and Wales,
Watson, Kevin
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Is there space for dyslexia in high‐attainment educational environments? Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study into attainment grouping in English primary schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Attainment grouping is an important policy issue and is increasingly practiced in UK primary schools, with researchers presenting contrasting stances on the impact to pupils' attainment and academic self‐concept. This original research statistically analyses the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data (N = 3510) and explores: (i) whether dyslexic ...
Esther Alice Outram
wiley   +1 more source