The study presented here examines how adult L2 listeners' L1 phonotactics interferes with
L2 vowel perception in different consonantal contexts. We examined Mandarin listeners' …

Native speakers perceive illusory vowels when presented with sound sequences that do not
respect the phonotactic constraints of their language (Dupoux, Kakehi, Hirose, Pallier, & …

Speech perception is influenced by language-specific phonological knowledge. While
phonotactics has long been established to play a role, the study of how phonological …

In speech addressed to adults, words are seldom realized in their canonical, or citation,
form. For example, the word 'green'in the phrase 'green beans' can often be realized as …

Nonnative or second language (L2) perception of segmental sequences is often
characterised by perceptual modification processes, which may “repair” a nonnative …

A key observation about wordlikeness judgements, going back to some of the earliest work
on the topic is that they are gradient in the sense that nonce words tend to form a cline of …

In Korean, voiced oral stops can occur intervocalically as allophones of their voiceless lenis
counterparts; they can also occur initially as variants of nasal stops as a result of initial …

This dissertation concerns cluster-dependent asymmetries in vowel epenthesis in loanword
adaptation and in non-native cluster perception. The central argument is that auditory factors …

Loanword adaptations are transformations applied to words when they are borrowed into a
foreign language. Words from a source language that are ill-formed in the borrowing …

This study is concerned with pronunciation features of English learners whose L1 are
Indonesian and Javanese. Specifically, the research views these non-standard …