This study focuses on acquisition of voiced alveolar stop [d] by adult Pakistani learners of
English. The L1 of the participants is Saraiki which has pre-voiced stops. Three groups of …

This study focuses on acquisition of English [bg] by Pakistani learners. Three groups of
learners, two from Pakistan and one from England participated in this study. The findings are …

There wereseveral research studies conducted on the VOT of voiceless stops of L2 English
but little has been devoted to the acquisition of voiced stops of English by native Arabic …

This paper reports an experiment in which production of English plosives by advanced
Pakistani learners was studied in the light of predictions of speech learning model (SLM) …

Researchers have studied voice onset time (VOT) in a number of languages but there is a
scarcity of research on the acquisition of VOT of English, particularly by adult Saudi learners …

This comparative case study uses voice onset time (VOT) to scrutinize whether an English-
speaking native Arabic speaker may create a unique phonetic category for their L2. Many …

Abstract The Speech Learning Model (SLM)(Flege, 1995) predicts a correspondence
“between perception and production of L2 sounds (Flege, 1993). Only accurate perception …

The English voiceless stop/p/and voiced stop/ɡ/are absent in the consonant inventory of
Arabic. This difference provides a fertile ground for empirical research in L2 speech learning …

This study reports the findings of a research that was conducted on ten (10) Arab students,
who were enrolled in a master of English applied linguistics program at Universiti Putra …

A few influential speech studies have been carried out using established speech learning
models, which confirmed that the analysis of first language (L1) and second language (L2) …