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Improving L2 Listeners' Perception of English Vowels: A Computer-Mediated Approach

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Thomson, Ron I. – Language Learning, 2012

A high variability phonetic training technique was employed to train 26 Mandarin speakers to better perceive ten English vowels. In eight short training sessions, learners identified 200 English vowel tokens, produced in a post bilabial stop context by 20 native speakers. Learners' ability to identify English vowels significantly improved in the…

Descriptors: Pronunciation, Tests, Phonetics, Native Speakers

On the Acquisition of Second Language Timing Patterns.

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Fourakis, Marios; Iverson, Gregory K. – Language Learning, 1985

Presents the results of an experiment which examined the temporal characteristics of voiceless plosives in American English, Arabic, and Arabic-accented English. Results showed that Arabic-accented English departed from the target language goal and constituted an articulation type characterizable as more Arabic than Arabic itself. (Author/SED)

Descriptors: Arabic, Articulation (Speech), Consonants, English (Second Language)

Global Foreign Accent and Voice Onset Time Among Japanese EFL Speakers.

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Riney, Timothy J.; Takagi, Naoyuki – Language Learning, 1999

Investigated the correlation between global foreign accent (GFA) and voice onset time (VOT). VOT values for /p/, /t/, and /k/ were measured at two times, separated by an interval of 42 months. Subjects were 11 Japanese speakers of English as a foreign language; 5 age-matched native speakers of English served as the control group. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Dialects, English (Second Language)