This paper reports findings of an experiment investigating the vocalisation and the
realisation of post-vocalic/r/in varieties of English and German. The study aims to explore …

This study investigated the phonological representations of vowels in children's native and
non-native lexicons. Two experiments were mispronunciation tasks (ie, a vowel in words …

This study contributes to the long-standing debate on the phonological representation of
Mandarin palatals. The controversy results from the fact that the palatals [tɕ, tɕ h, ɕ] are …

This dissertation reports on perceptual training of tense-lax vowel contrasts in the context of
an advanced-level ESL pronunciation class for Chinese and Korean international graduate …

While considerable dialectal variation exists, almost all varieties of Spanish exhibit some
sort of alternation in terms of the palatal obstruent segments. Typically, the palatal affricate …

This study investigated the perception and production of two L2 stop consonants, examining
the importance of lexical stress and motivation to learners' ability to discriminate and …

Languages vary not only in terms of their sound inventory, but also in the phonological
status certain sound distinctions are assigned. For example, while vowel nasality is lexically …

The primary aim of this study was to determine whether late French/English bilinguals are
able to utilize knowledge of bilabial stop contrasts that exist in each of their separate …

Second language (L2) speech perception depends on a number of factors related to the
characteristics of the listener and to the characteristics of the stimuli employed in the …

Allophones are diverse phonetic instantiations of a single underlying sound category. As
such, they pose a peculiar problem for infant language learners: These variants occur in the …