This study investigates the mechanisms responsible for fast changes in processing foreign- accented speech. Event Related brain Potentials (ERPs) were obtained while native …
Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP). The study of SLP seeks to …
Listeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at …
C Dromey, GO Jang, K Hollis - Speech Communication, 2013 - Elsevier
First and second formant histories have been used in studies of both normal and disordered speech to indirectly measure the activity of the vocal tract. The purpose of the present study …
Abstract Background/Aims: Non-native speech is frequently characterized as being more variable than native speech. However, the few studies that have directly investigated …
Previous studies show that there are differences in native and non-native speech processing (Lev-Ari, 2018). However, less is known about the differences between processing native …
This study examines the effect of foreign-accented speech on the predictive ability of our brain. Listeners actively anticipate upcoming linguistic information in the speech signal so as …
Purpose To assess the influence of second language (L2) proficiency on production characteristics of rhythmic sequences in the L1 (Bengali) and L2 (English), with emphasis on …
S Khanal, MT Johnson, N Bozorg - 2021 IEEE Spoken …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper compares the difference in articulation patterns between native (L1) and non- native (L2) Mandarin speakers of English, for the purpose of providing an understanding of …