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Wiener, Seth; Lee, Chao-Yang; Tao, Liang – Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated how adult second language (L2) learners of Mandarin Chinese use knowledge of phonological and lexical statistical regularities when acoustic information is insufficient for word recognition. A gating task was used to test intermediate L2 learners at two time points across a semester of classroom learning. Native Mandarin…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
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Luthy, Melvin J. – Language Learning, 1983
Native English speakers' and foreign students' perceptions of 14 English intonation signals, recorded free of verbal context, show foreign students may be misinterpreting or missing much information communicated with nonlexical signals. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)