Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13365
Paula Villablanca
{"title":"PRE- AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS’ COGNITIONS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION TEACHING: AN EXPLORATION OF THE CHILEAN CONTEXT","authors":"Paula Villablanca","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133167102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13360
Vance Schaefer, K. Ochiai
{"title":"Using Haiku as Mini Pronunciation Lessons to Enhance Awareness, Perception, and Production of Mora Timing and Special Moras in Japanese as an Second Language","authors":"Vance Schaefer, K. Ochiai","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116717805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13261
Shannon R. Becker, J. Sturm
{"title":"ASSESSING VARIABILITY IN PRONUNCIATION DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES FROM A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Shannon R. Becker, J. Sturm","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127925555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13269
Qiangze Feng, Maria Grazia Busà
{"title":"HOW DO L1 MANDARIN CHINESE LEARNERS PRODUCE L2 ITALIAN SINGLETON AND GEMINATE CONSONANT CONTRASTS?","authors":"Qiangze Feng, Maria Grazia Busà","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13269","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates L1 Mandarin Chinese - L2 Italian learners’ production of Italian singleton/geminate consonant contrast. 30 Chinese undergraduate students that varied in their Italian learning experience (10 first-year, 10 second-year and 10 third-year) and 10 native Italian speakers took part in a production experiment. They read, both in isolation and in carrier-sentences, 5 disyllabic minimal pairs contrasting in consonant length. Durations of target intervocalic consonants and preconsonantal vowels were measured and converted into duration ratios for statistical analyses. The results show that the Chinese learners were able to produce short-long differences for Italian singleton vs. geminate consonants, though their duration ratios were significantly smaller than those of the native speakers. As for preconsonantal vowels, while the native Italian speakers alternated between short vowels before geminate consonants and long vowels before singletons, the Chinese learners did not distinguish between pre-singleton and pre-geminate vowel durations. Moreover, though the three groups of Chinese learners had different learning experiences, they did not differ significantly in their productions of Italian consonant length contrast. These results indicate that, for Chinese learners, the mastery of Italian consonant length contrast represents a challenge and that an increased learning experience may not help.","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126910871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13356
Carolyn Pogson
{"title":"PRINCIPLES FOR SECOND DIALECT CONSONANT ACQUISITION","authors":"Carolyn Pogson","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126209806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13335
C. Hua
{"title":"ACQUISITION OF PROSODY OF GIVEN INFORMATION BY MANDARIN-SPEAKING EFL LEARNERS","authors":"C. Hua","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13335","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated Mandarin-speaking English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ acquisition of the prosodic marking of different types of given information in English: given information indicated by pronoun, by repetition, and by synonymy. Eighty learners at preliminary, lower intermediate, upper intermediate and advanced levels (20 in each group) and 20 native English speakers participated in a question-answer reading task. The results of auditory and acoustic analyses of the participants’ production showed that the learners performed differently for the three types of given information in terms of both assignment and phonetic realization of deaccentuation. In addition, in terms of deaccentuation assignment, the learners performed the best on pronoun and the worst on synonymy and exhibited much greater variations between the types than the native speakers, and their performance improved with proficiency. In terms of phonetic realization of deaccentuation, however, the learners produced F0 ratios and intensity ratios comparable to the native speakers but lower duration ratios, which approached the native speakers as their proficiency increased. Based on these findings, some pedagogical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122578256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13353
Daniel J. Olson
{"title":"VISUAL FEEDABACK AND RELATIVE VOWEL DURATION IN L2 PRONUNCIATION: THE CURIOUS CASE OF STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED VOWELS","authors":"Daniel J. Olson","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123588454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13357
Aliann Safavi, Alyssa Kermad
{"title":"PROSODIC PATTERNS OF REFUSALS: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH NATIVE, NON-NATIVE, AND BILINGUAL SPEAKERS","authors":"Aliann Safavi, Alyssa Kermad","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128828014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-17DOI: 10.31274/psllt.14317
Abdulrahman A. Alharthi, Agustinus Hardi Prasetyo
{"title":"Technology review: English Pronunciation by Yobimi group","authors":"Abdulrahman A. Alharthi, Agustinus Hardi Prasetyo","doi":"10.31274/psllt.14317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.14317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"371 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}