Speech perception patterns are strongly influenced by one's native phonology. It is generally
accepted that native English listeners rely primarily on spectral cues when perceiving …

2. Methods The data used for this study come from the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese-
Core (CSJ)(Koiso, 2014; Maekawa, 2000), containing∼ 45 h of speech (recorded 1999 …

I owe thanks to Eline Smit, Jaydene Elvin, Jeff Moore, Mikey Elmers, Nicole Traynor, and
Risa Matsubara for their help with running the experiments, and of course to those how …

Somali is well known to exhibit vowel harmony (Armstrong 1934), but linguists know
remarkably little about how the system is implemented. Most presume that harmonic …

One of the primary goals of second language (L2) acquisition models is to identify and
predict the types and degrees of learning difficulties, which often stem from the linguistic …

This study aimed to test sound-meaning relations in Japanese poetry. To this end,
participants assessed the sentiments expressed in a random selection of Tanka (a specific …

This study combines acoustic phonetics,(applied) corpus linguistics, machine learning, and
speech recognition to analyse the production of the monophthongal vowels/ɐ ɒ æ e ɛ i: ɪ …

The research described native Japanese speakers' perception of Sundanese vowel/ə/after
the first exposure to a controlled naturalistic input of conversation. The research worked in …

Testing Second Language Linguistic Perception Page 1 Testing Second Language Linguistic
Perception A Case Study of Japanese, American English, and Australian English Vowels …