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Training the Brain to Weight Speech Cues Differently: A Study of Finnish Second-language Users of English [PDF]
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009 Abstract Foreign-language learning is a prime example of a task that entails perceptual learning. The correct comprehension of foreign-language speech requires the correct recognition of speech sounds. The most difficult speech–sound contrasts for foreign-language learners often are the ones that have multiple phonetic cues, especially ...
Sari Ylinen +6 more
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Degree of Perceived Accent in Finnish as a Second Language for Turkish Children Born in Finland
Language Learning, 2015 This study investigated whether children born in a second language (L2) environment pronounce their L2 with foreign accents and, if so, when foreign accents first emerge. This study also examined the latest age of onset (AO) of extensive L2 experience at which native L2 pronunciation is possible and explored several factors that affect the degree of ...
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TEACHING FINNISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TO INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION
ICERI Proceedings, 2022 Aija Elg
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Language and Speech, 2005 Some languages, such as Finnish, use speech-sound duration as the primary cue for a phonological quantity distinction. For second-language (L2) learners, quantity is often difficult to master if speech-sound duration plays a less important role in the phonology of their native language (L1).
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3 Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during the Second World War
, 2021 Ville Kivimäki
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