… allophonic variability in L2 contrast perception, with greater L1 allophonic variability (ie,
Mandarin mid-vowel allophones… difficulty in perceptual discrimination of an L2 contrast in a …

… L2 phoneme /h/ which was the contrast tested in the present study). … L2 allophone and the
functionally matching L1 phoneme has consequences for that allophone in speech perception …

… observed in perception of non-native click contrasts by … effects in speech perception.
Specifically, listeners of non-click languages generally perceive the click bursts as non-speech …

… of difficult non-native speech sound contrasts. Overall, results … in categorical perception of
native-language speech sounds is responsible for variability in sensitivity to non-native speech …

… where the L1 has neither sound, the L1 has one sound, and the L1 has both sounds as
allophones. In contrast, L2 speech production research shows that L2 learners produce sounds …

… We return to the role of allophonic perception and feature economy in contrast emergence
… perform the task, leading to high levels of categorical perception (Gerrits & Schouten, 2004). …

… have a deficit in categorical perception of speech sounds, … mode of speech perception that
is based on “allophonic” features, that … evidenced the implications of allophonic perception for …

… Ohala noted that the allophone inventory associated with a phoneme … claims about categorical
perception hold true for the contrast. … If we accept the premise of categorical perception in …

… between speech production and speech perception errors … during a speech production
task and a phonological contrast … fricative in the presence of numerous allophones. The /R/ …

… focusing on the identification of phonic contrasts in BP, we opted to use to compare and …
is seen as a posterior fricative with numerous allophones. The /R/ phoneme is variously …