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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"L2 Phonology"”.
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Similarity in L2 Phonology
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty producing and perceiving non-native phonological contrasts. Even highly proficient bilinguals, who have been exposed to an L2 for long periods of time, struggle with difficult contrasts, such as /r/-/l/ for Japanese learners of …
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Production and perception of liaison by Anglophone learners of French
… of French. While second/foreign language (L2) phonology has long been recognized as an area of learner difficulty, there have been few studies on the acquisition of liaison by L2 learners of French. The two studies contained in this thesis hope to expand our understanding of liaison as it …
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Interaction, corrective feedback, and the development of lexical stress
… evidence that they facilitate different types of L2 development (Li, 2010; Mackey & Goo, 2007; Sheen & Ellis, 2011). However, to date, their impact on learners’ phonological development has received relatively little attention. In order to fill this gap, the current study examined the effects of …
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Typologizing Native Language Influence on Intonation in a Second Language: Three Transfer Phenomena in Japanese EFL Learners
… how intonation is acquired in a second language (L2), the topic has historically received relatively little attention from mainstream models of L2 phonology. As such, a unified theoretical framework suited to address unique acquisitional challenges specific to this domain of L2 knowledge (such as …
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L2 acquisition of nuclear accent
In acquiring a second language (L2), it has been noted that the phonetics and phonology of an L2 can be difficult for learners to acquire and many sound structures from a learner’s first language (L1) are transferred into the L2, resulting in pronunciation patterns that diverge from the native …
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The acquisition of acoustic and aerodynamic patterns of coarticulation in second and heritage languages
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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The perception and production of palatal codas by Korean L2 learners of English
… the field of the acquisition of second language (L2) phonology is the role that speech perception plays in accurate speech production and whether, and if so, how, the speech perception and production systems are linked. Existing theories of L2 speech perception such as the Speech Learning Model …
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The perception, production and the effect of explicit instruction in L2 English and Spanish vowels in foreign language (FL) adult learners
Adult L2 language learners struggle with the acquisition of L2 phonological categories due to the early attrition of the ability to acquire sounds (Scovel, 1988) and to the pervasive transfer of L1 phonological categories (Best, 1995; Best & Tyler, 2007; Flege, 1995; Kuhl, 1993; Escudero & Boersma, …