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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening
Foreign Language Annals, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 449-476, Summer 2026.Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
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Discrimination of multisyllabic sequences by young infants [PDF]
, 1982 This paper is a review of a study to determine whether the exaggerated suprasegmentals of infant-directed speech facilitates speech perception of infants as opposed to adult-directed style of ...
Karzon, Roanne Gottlieb
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Using metacognitive strategies to raise awareness of stress and intonation
Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2018 Few studies have analyzed the impact of language awareness and metacognitive strategies for intelligibility in the context of English as an international language.
Diana Carolina Peñuela
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Probing Prediction‐Related Processes in Language Using an EEG Word Stem Completion Paradigm
Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Humans comprehend language rapidly, with active prediction of upcoming words as a key mechanism. Studies using sentences have documented facilitations in behavior and brain activity (N400) when people encounter predictable words, and brain responses (anterior positivity) specific to prediction violations.
Hui‐Sun Chiu +2 more
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Chinese as a Second Language Pronunciation Teaching Survey [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2018 This survey study aims to provide an overview of Chinese as a second language (CSL) pronunciation teaching in the higher educational institutions in the US. 80 respondents participated in and completed an online survey.
Chunsheng Yang, Wenhua Jin
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Speech Characteristics of Japanese Speakers Affecting American and Japanese Listener Evaluations
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 The study examines what pronunciation features (i.e., segmental and suprasegmental features, as well as other acoustic properties such as speech rate, intensity, pitch, and pitch range) affect the intelligibility of Japanese learners of English, when ...
Atsuko Kashiwagi, Michael Snyder
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Foreign language anxiety and self-perceived English pronunciation competence
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011 In foreign language learning a negative correlation has been reported be-tween language anxiety and both oral performance (Liu, 2006; Stephenson Wilson, 2006; Woodrow 2006) and self-perceived levels of speaking ability (Kitano, 2001; MacIntyre, Noels ...
Magdalena Szyszka
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, 2023 Research has suggested that the Perceptual Assimilation Model for Suprasegmentals (PAM-S) predicts non-native tone discrimination. This study investigates whether PAM-S applies to sequence recall.
Yu, Doris +2 more
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Music in our ears: why some languages sound more pleasing than others
Here we widen our study of sound symbolism from atomic sounds to ...
Niklas Erben Johansson +2 more
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LES CORRÉLATIONS DE PERSONNE DANS L’ÉNONCÉ ORAL : ENJEUX ÉNONCIATIFS ET PROSODIQUES
Francisola: Revue Indonésienne de la Langue et la Littérature Françaises, 2016 RÉSUMÉ. Selon Benveniste (1966), l’espace énonciatif se répartit entre personnes (Je/Tu) et non-personne (Il). On peut citer, entre autres critères de détermination, les oppositions de nombre et les propriétés syntaxiques et les phénomènes ...
Amidou SANOGO
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