This study explores how individuals' second language cue weighting strategies change over
time and across different contrasts. The study investigates the developmental changes in …

Background High talker variability (ie, multiple voices in the input) has been found effective
in training nonnative phonetic contrasts in adults. A small number of studies suggest that …

Younger learners are better at acquiring second-language (L2) phoneme contrasts than are
older learners, but this general correlation between age and learning ability is often …

This study investigated whether speaker variability in phonetic training benefits vowel
learnability by Arabic learners of English. Perception training using High-Variability stimuli in …

Substantial research suggests that high variability (multitalker) phonetic training helps
second language (L2) adults improve differentiation of challenging nonnative speech …

Research into non-native (L2) speech perception has increased the need for specialized
experimental materials. The Non-Native Speech Recognition (NNSR) sentences are a new …

The major functions of the auditory system are recognition (what is the sound) and
localization (where is the sound). Although each of these has received considerable …

It has been proven that high-variability English/r/-/l/perceptual training improves Japanese
adults' production. The present study examined whether Japanese children also improve …

Neural coding in the auditory system has been shown to obey the principle of efficient neural
coding. The statistical properties of speech appear to be particularly well matched to the …

Guided waves in solid media have been used in structural health monitoring (SHM) and non-
destructive testing (NDT) applications due to their mechanical propagation properties. In this …