The study is based on an experiment with two groups of participants. One group comprised
of Pakistanis who speak Punjabi and the other comprised of Indian who speak Hindi as the …

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 …

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 …

When an initial/s/precedes a voiceless stop in English, the aspiration is lost, and the voice
onset time (VOT) is significantly shortened. This causes an allophonic variation of English …

Presents the preliminary results from work in progress of a paired study of the acquisition of
voiceless stops by Spanish speakers leaning English and American English speakers …

This paper reports on a production test with 34 adult students of MA English in Pakistan. The
participants speak Saraiki as their mother tongue. The experiment was conducted with a …

The purpose of this study is to investigate how a person's first language (L1) influences their
second language (L2) pronunciation and whether L2 has any effect on L1 pronunciation …

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

This paper examines the acquisition of English stops by Bahdini Kurdish learners. Kurdish
utilizes a three-way category of voiced, voiceless aspirated and unaspirated stops. Kurdish …

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 …