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 …

This paper seeks to contribute to the nature of cross-linguistic transfer in the production of
English Voice Onset Time (VOT) by adult multilingual speakers in Indonesia in view of how …

The aim of this study is to examine the production of the word-initial stop/p/by Arabs
speaking English as a second language (L2). Arabic was chosen as a counter language …

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 …

ABSTRACT This study compares Voice Onset Time (VOT) patterns of word-initial
English/b/and/p/in three groups: Omani undergraduate students, Omani professors and …

The present study investigates the phonetic and phonological aspects of the voicing contrast
in stops in Najdi Arabic, a dialect that has been found to contrast prevoiced and aspirated …

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) …

This study explores which acoustic correlates best distinguish the voicing contrast in
Lebanese Arabic, a language with a two-way voicing contrast that occurs with both singleton …

There has been a general perception that the English voiced stops/b, d, g/before and after a
pause or silence are more often confused with the initial voiceless stops/p, t, k/. Thus, in …