This study examined Japanese speakers' learning of American English during their first
years of immersion in the United States (US). Native Japanese-speaking (NJ) children (n …

This dissertation examines the development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in children
speaking English, Japanese or Mandarin Chinese. Both English and Japanese have a two …

The present study probes perception of place of articulation distinctions among Polish
sibilants using an AX discrimination task, and compares results from 13 Polish-speaking and …

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of vowel context and language experience in
the perceived similarity between L2 English fricatives and Thai sounds. The target English …

This dissertation discusses the role of phonetic cues and warping in perceptual learning.
The experiments described herein use a two dimensional stimulus set derived from the …

This paper aims to examine whether Japanese English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL)
learners' pronunciation errors are due to their inability to articulate, or to misunderstandings …

Perceiving non-native sounds in adverse listening environments is challenging, even for
proficient learners. An identification experiment in quiet, three reverberant (RT= 0.78 s, 1.12 …

This study examines the discrimination of words ending with voiceless stops/ptk/in first
language (L1) and second language (L2) by three groups of native Thai participants. These …

ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) is a Central Salish language spoken in British Columbia
with a large fricative inventory. Previous impressionistic descriptions of ʔayʔaǰuθəm have …

This study investigates the interference of L1 phonology with L2 speech perception, focusing
on the identification of the English fricatives/f/and/h/by Japanese listeners. In Japanese, the …