One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the
perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 …

Research in first language development draws disproportionately from nontone languages.
Such research is often presumed to reveal developmental universals in spite of the fact that …

This study investigated talker-dependent and talker-independent perceptual adaptation to
foreign-accent English. Experiment 1 investigated talker-dependent adaptation by …

The current work examines native Korean speakers' perception and production of stop
contrasts in their native language (L1, Korean) and second language (L2, English), focusing …

Objectives/hypothesis: The purpose of this study was (1) to determine whether changes in
intra-and interrater reliability occur for inexperienced listeners' judgments of overall severity …

Speech sound patterns can be discerned using multiple acoustic cues. The relative
weighting of these cues is known to be language-specific. Speech-sound training in adults …

The ability of native English (NE) and native Chinese (NC) speakers to identify and
discriminate the mid‐versus the low‐tone contrast in Thai was investigated before and after …

This study investigates whether L2 learners can be trained to make better use of phonetic
information from visual cues in their perception of a novel phonemic contrast. It also …

Pronunciation instruction is still underemphasized in many language programs as well as in
teacher-training curricula despite reports of significant improvement from many studies …

Computer-based training can be effective in improving second language learners'
perceptions and productions of segmental speech contrasts. However, because most …