Психолінгвістика, 2023 Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the phonological errors associated with consonant and vowel pronunciation made by Saudi learners of the English language in light of the optimality hypothesis.
Анхар Ассунітан
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Speech Synthesis of Arabic Vocabularies [PDF]
Al-Rafidain Journal of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, 2011 In this paper, system is presented for speech synthesis of Arabic vocabularies written with diacritics, graphemes transfer to allophones by applying the phonological rules.
Enaam Saeed
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Learning to Read Bilingually Modulates the Manifestations of Dyslexia in Adults [PDF]
, 2018 Published online: 28 Mar 2018According to the Grain Size Accommodation hypothesis (Lallier & Carreiras, 2017), learning to read in two languages differing in orthographic consistency leads to a cross-linguistic modulation of reading and spelling ...
Barr, Polly +4 more
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Syntactic development in early foreign language learning: Effects of L1 transfer, input and individual factors [PDF]
, 2019 This study explores parallels and differences in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses between early foreign-language (FL) learners and monolingual children.
Anja Steinlen +27 more
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Early bilingualism, language transfer, and phonological awareness [PDF]
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007 The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relations between early bilingualism and phonological awareness in a sample of 75 Turkish–Dutch bilingual kindergarten children living in The Netherlands. In a longitudinal design, the children's first (L1) and second (L2) language abilities were measured at the beginning and end of kindergarten ...
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Modeling Heritage Language Phonetics and Phonology: Toward an Integrated Multilingual Sound System
Languages, 2021 Although heritage language phonology is often argued to be fairly stable, heritage language speakers often sound noticeably different from both monolinguals and second-language learners.
David Natvig
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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 +47 more
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Ilha do Desterro, 2010 This study surveys the interlanguage phonology of a Brazilian learner of English who has primarily learned English in a naturalistic environment.
Denise Osborne
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Transfer, similarity or lack of awareness? inconsistencies of German learners in the pronunciation of lot, thought, strut, palm and bath [PDF]
, 2012 The current study presents acoustic analyses of non-high back vowels and low central vowels in the lexical sets LOT, THOUGHT, STRUT, PALM and BATH as pronounced by German learners of English.
Kautzsch, Alexander
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