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Constanza Riquelme; Yasna Pereira-Reyes; Mauricio Véliz-Campos – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
Prosody is considered one of the most challenging aspects of second language (L2) speech acquisition. This study explores the role of working memory (WM) in the perception and production of English nuclear accent (NA) by L1 Spanish learners. It focuses on both default and non-default patterns of NA placement in English. Twenty-four participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning
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Qinli Deng; Kembell Lentejas; Shelley Xiuli Tong – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Prosodic sensitivity, or the ability to perceive suprasegmental features of speech such as lexical tone in Cantonese and lexical stress in English, has been recognized as an essential component of reading acquisition. However, the specific pathways by which it influences reading comprehension remain unclear. This study evaluates how…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Bilingual Education, Reading Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)