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Listening skills instruction: practical tips for processing aural input [PDF]
, 2019 Two listening challenges faced by English L2 learners are (1) successfully identifying words in continuous speech and (2) understanding a speaker’s intended meaning. Listening is a skill L2 learners report wanting to improve, yet teaching practices often
Reed, Marnie
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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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Inights on NIRS sensitivity from a cross-linguistic study on the emergence of phonological grammar
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Each language has a unique set of phonemic categories and phonotactic rules which determine permissible sound sequences in that language. Behavioral research demonstrates that one’s native language shapes the perception of both sound categories and sound
Yasuyo eMinagawa-Kawai +9 more
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Youth Culture and Urban Pride; the Sociolinguistics of East Javanese Slang [PDF]
, 2014 This study offers an overview of the characteristics and social functions of youth slang in the Indonesian province of East Java. It examines Boso Walikan and various types of Surabayan slang.
Hoogervorst, T. G. (Tom)
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
Mind &Language, EarlyView.It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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Open Linguistics, 2015 When native Spanish speakers produce English words with initial [s]-consonant clusters (sC), they sometimes produce a prothetic vowel, e.g. stigma > estigma. This paper reports a production experiment on this phenomena, as well as computational modelling
Daland Robert, Norrmann-Vigil Ingrid
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The voice of experience: Causal inference in phonotactic adaptation
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 Successfully grappling with widespread linguistic variation requires listeners to adapt to systematic variation in the environment while discarding incidental variation, based on listeners’ prior experience.
Matthew Goldrick, Thomas Denby
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Language identification with suprasegmental cues: A study based on speech resynthesis [PDF]
, 1999 This paper proposes a new experimental paradigm to explore the discriminability of languages, a question which is crucial to the child born in a bilingual environment.
Mehler, Jacques, Ramus, Franck
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Phoneme Recognition Using Acoustic Events [PDF]
, 1994 This paper presents a new approach to phoneme recognition using nonsequential sub--phoneme units. These units are called acoustic events and are phonologically meaningful as well as recognizable from speech signals.
Carson-Berndsen, Julie, Huebener, Kai
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Music and language are both hierarchically structured: syllables combine into words, and meters are groupings of musical beats. Statistical learning (SL) supports speech segmentation through computation of transitional probabilities between syllables, and individual differences in SL ability were found predictive of further language ...
Iris van der Wulp +2 more
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