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Speech perception and production as constructs of action: Implications for models of L2 development
Revista X, 2021 Speech production involves an intricate set of actions. Its underlying cognitive mechanisms are thus historically seen as distant from those of speech perception, usually assumed to be a passive process.
Reiner Vinicius Perozzo +1 more
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 569-587, April 2025.A diverse body of research conducted since the start of Covid‐19 has investigated the impact of the pandemic on children's environments and their language development. This scoping review synthesises the peer‐reviewed research literature on this topic between 2020 and 2023.
Cecilia Zuniga‐Montanez +4 more
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The acquisition of L2 English complex onsets by L1 Farsi speakers
Laboratory PhonologyMuch previous work has shown that sibilant-initial complex onsets (SC onsets) differ in their typological, phonological, articulatory, and acquisitional properties from other onsets.
Connor Mayer, Noah Khaloo
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 Learning a second language (L2) proceeds with individual approaches to proficiency in the language. Individual differences including sex, as well as working memory (WM) function appear to have strong effects on behavioral performance and cortical ...
Lisa Sugiura +12 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English‐speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within‐task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object–pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed ...
Matti Laine +4 more
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L1 Influence on Learning Spoken English of Bangla Speakers
Crossings, 2009 With a long historical background of contrastive analysis, language transfer, language distance and the Superset and the Subset Principles, L1 influence on learning the target language has been one of the significant domains of linguistic research.
S.M. Ariful Islam
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin +5 more
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Production of Vowel /ə/ in Sundanese by Japanese Native Speakers in First Exposure
Lingua Cultura, 2020 The research described native Japanese speakers’ perception of Sundanese vowel /ə/ after the first exposure to a controlled naturalistic input of conversation.
Rike Febriyanti, Lailatul Husna
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ACQUISITION OF L2 PHONOLOGY – SPANISH MEETS CROATIAN
Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2015 The phoneme is conceived as a mental image that is stored in our mind and then represented by sounds in speech and graphemes in writing for phonologically based alphabets. The acquisition of L2 phonology includes two very important skills – reading and writing.
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