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Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years. 向往向往：英语单词首字母/p/的第二语言习得，历时10年。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241264296

Murray J Munro, Tracey M Derwing, Kazuya Saito

{"title":"Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years.","authors":"Murray J Munro, Tracey M Derwing, Kazuya Saito","doi":"10.1177/00238309241264296","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241264296","url":null,"abstract":"This short report describes a longitudinal examination of the acquisition of English-aspirated stops by an initial cohort of 24 adult Slavic-language (Russian, Ukrainian, and Croatian) speakers. All had arrived in Canada with low oral English proficiency, and all were enrolled in the same language instruction program at the outset. Initial bilabial stops in CVCs were recorded at eight testing times: six during the first year of the study, again at year 7, and finally at year 10. Intelligibility was evaluated through a blind listening assessment of the stop productions from the first seven testing times. Voice onset times (VOT) were measured for /p/ from all eight times. Mean /p/ intelligibility improved-mainly during a proposed Window of Maximal Opportunity for L2 speech acquisition-but remained below 100%, even after 7 years. For some speakers, early /p/ productions were minimally aspirated, with VOT increasing over time but remaining intermediate between L1 English and L1 Slavic-Language values at 10 years. However, inter-speaker variability was dramatic, with some speakers showing full intelligibility throughout the study and others showing many unintelligible productions at all times. Individual learning trajectories tended to be non-linear and often non-cumulative. Overall, these findings point to a developmental process that varies considerably from one learner to another. It also demonstrates the serious drawbacks of relying on group means to characterize the process of L2 segmental learning.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"247-261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12106929/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Incidental Learning of Collocations Under Different Input Modes and the Mediating Role of Perceptual Learning Style. 不同输入模式下的关联词偶发学习及感知学习风格的中介作用

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241266864

Xin Yuan, Jing Tang

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Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English. 音段对美式英语高音重音缩放感知的影响。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241255319

Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

{"title":"Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English.","authors":"Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel","doi":"10.1177/00238309241255319","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241255319","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers investigating a broad array of questions in spoken language prosody routinely base their arguments on measurements taken from the F0 contours of representative speech samples. These analyses, however, frequently involve abstracting F0 contours away from the segmental strings that bear them, potentially overlooking in the process the role played by segmental qualities such as sonority or periodicity in the realization of F0 patterns by speakers and their interpretation by listeners. This paper reports the results of two experiments investigating how perception of F0 contours is affected by the segmental string over which those contours are realized. The first focuses on gaps in F0 contours created by voiceless obstruents such as stops and fricatives, while the second investigates F0 intervals spanning lower-sonority voiced segments, such as nasals and voiced fricatives. While these two scenarios might at first seem unrelated, we argue that listeners treat both with a single mechanism in perception, namely, by reducing (potentially to zero) the amount of weight accorded to those portions of the contour for determination of the speaker's intended F0 scaling level. We present an account of both effects within a unified model of F0 scaling perception called TCoG-F, with discussion of its implications for phonetic and phonological intonation research going forward.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"278-312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension. 非词中元音数词的发音：重复与扩展》。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241276008

Eda Naz Gokdemir, Margaret Burkhart, Laurel Semprebon, Jianjun Hua, Donna Coch

{"title":"Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension.","authors":"Eda Naz Gokdemir, Margaret Burkhart, Laurel Semprebon, Jianjun Hua, Donna Coch","doi":"10.1177/00238309241276008","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241276008","url":null,"abstract":"In English, the pronunciation of a vowel digraph can vary; for example, ea is pronounced /ɛ/ in bread but /i/ in beach and /eɪ/ in break. We investigated participant-level effects on the pronunciation of ambiguous vowel digraphs in nonwords (e.g., yeath) using standardized test measures of six reading-related skills in 80 young adults. We employed both an established written task and set of nonword stimuli and a spoken version of the task with the same stimuli. We largely replicated the previously reported pattern of preferred nonword pronunciations in both the written and spoken versions of the task. Generalized linear mixed-effects model analyses revealed that individual differences in phonological memory, spelling knowledge, and word reading efficiency contributed to pronunciation choice beyond item-level effects. Overall, taken together with the results of item-level analyses, our findings are consistent with models and theories in which specific reading-related skills, intralexical context, and interlexical pronunciation knowledge influence ambiguous vowel digraph pronunciation in nonword reading in fluently reading young adults.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"413-436"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142331985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners. 第二语言语音发展中的能力、焦虑和成功：中国 EFL 大学水平学习者的纵向研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241281741

Yang Zhou

{"title":"Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners.","authors":"Yang Zhou","doi":"10.1177/00238309241281741","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241281741","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the second language (L2) speech development of a group of Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college-level learners (N = 83) and the association between their aptitude, anxiety, and L2 speech development. The performance of the participants' L2 speech, including speech comprehensibility and accentedness, was evaluated using a sentence reading task and a pair of picture description tasks (pre- and post-test). In addition, students completed the LLAMA tests (language learning and aptitude measurement in adults) and the Second Language Speaking Anxiety Scale (SLSAS). The t-test revealed that after one semester of English speaking and pronunciation instruction, the EFL students in the study demonstrated significant gains in their L2 speech performance in terms of accentedness and comprehensibility in both controlled and impromptu tasks. Regression analyses revealed that phonemic coding ability positively predicted gains in comprehensibility but negatively predicted gains in accentedness during sentence reading. In addition, associative memory was positively associated with comprehensibility gains in the picture description task. Anxiety appeared to be a strong predictor of participants' gains in speech comprehensibility and accentedness during the picture description task.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"437-459"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Case for a Quantitative Approach to the Study of Nonnative Accent Features. 采用定量方法研究非母语口音特征的理由。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241256653

Mónica Anna Wagner, Mirjam Broersma, James M McQueen, Roeland van Hout, Kristin Lemhöfer

{"title":"The Case for a Quantitative Approach to the Study of Nonnative Accent Features.","authors":"Mónica Anna Wagner, Mirjam Broersma, James M McQueen, Roeland van Hout, Kristin Lemhöfer","doi":"10.1177/00238309241256653","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241256653","url":null,"abstract":"Research with nonnative speech spans many different linguistic branches and topics. Most studies include one or a few well-known features of a particular accent. However, due to a lack of empirical studies, little is known about how common these features are among nonnative speakers or how uncommon they are among native speakers. Moreover, it remains to be seen whether findings from such studies generalize to lesser-known features. Here, we demonstrate a quantitative approach to study nonnative accent features using Dutch-accented English as an example. By analyzing the phonetic distances between transcriptions of speech samples, this approach can identify the features that best distinguish nonnative from native speech. In addition, we describe a method to test hypotheses about accent features by checking whether the prevalence of the features overall varies between native and nonnative speakers. Furthermore, we include English speakers from the United States and United Kingdom and native Dutch speakers from Belgium and The Netherlands to address the issue of regional accent variability in both the native and target language. We discuss the results concerning three observed features. Overall, the results provide empirical support for some well-known features of Dutch-accented English, but suggest that others may be infrequent among nonnatives or in fact frequent among natives. In addition, the findings reveal potentially new accent features, and factors that may modulate the expression of known features. Our study demonstrates a fruitful approach to study nonnative accent features that has the potential to expand our understanding of the phenomenon of accent.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"313-343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12106924/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141898936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French. 感知上容易的第二语言电话并不总是容易的：正字法和音系在第二语言法语弱读音实现中的作用。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241277995

Elisabeth Heiszenberger, Eva Reinisch, Frederik Hartmann, Elizabeth Brown, Elissa Pustka

{"title":"Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French.","authors":"Elisabeth Heiszenberger, Eva Reinisch, Frederik Hartmann, Elizabeth Brown, Elissa Pustka","doi":"10.1177/00238309241277995","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241277995","url":null,"abstract":"Encoding and establishing a new second-language (L2) phonological category is notoriously difficult. This is particularly true for phonological contrasts that do not exist in the learners' native language (L1). Phonological categories that also exist in the L1 do not seem to pose any problems. However, foreign-language learners are not only presented with oral input. Instructed L2 learning often involves heavy reliance on written forms of the target language. The present study investigates the contribution of orthography to the quality of phonolexical encoding by examining the acoustics of French schwa by Austrian German learners-a perceptually and articulatorily easy L2 phone with incongruent grapheme-phoneme correspondences between the L1 and L2. We compared production patterns in an auditory word-repetition task (without orthographic input) with those in a word-reading task. We analyzed the formant values (F1, F2, F3) of the schwa realizations of two groups of Austrian high-school students who had been learning French for 1 and 6 years. The results show that production patterns are more likely to be affected by L1 grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences when orthographic input is present. However, orthography does not appear to play the dominant role, as L2 development patterns are strongly determined by both the speaker and especially the lexical item, suggesting a highly complex interaction of multiple internal and external factors in the establishment of L2 phonological categories beyond orthography and phonology.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"460-491"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12106934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language. 通过唇读提供视觉支持对识别西班牙语单词的重要性

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241270741

Violeta Gómez-Vicente, Gema Esquiva, Carmen Lancho, Kawthar Benzerdjeb, Antonia Angulo Jerez, Eva Ausó

{"title":"Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language.","authors":"Violeta Gómez-Vicente, Gema Esquiva, Carmen Lancho, Kawthar Benzerdjeb, Antonia Angulo Jerez, Eva Ausó","doi":"10.1177/00238309241270741","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241270741","url":null,"abstract":"We sought to examine the contribution of visual cues, such as lipreading, in the identification of familiar (words) and unfamiliar (phonemes) words in terms of percent accuracy. For that purpose, in this retrospective study, we presented lists of words and phonemes (adult female healthy voice) in auditory (A) and audiovisual (AV) modalities to 65 Spanish normal-hearing male and female listeners classified in four age groups. Our results showed a remarkable benefit of AV information in word and phoneme recognition. Regarding gender, women exhibited better performance than men in both A and AV modalities, although we only found significant differences for words but not for phonemes. Concerning age, significant differences were detected in word recognition in the A modality between the youngest (18-29 years old) and oldest (⩾50 years old) groups only. We conclude visual information enhances word and phoneme recognition and women are more influenced by visual signals than men in AV speech perception. On the contrary, it seems that, overall, age is not a limiting factor for word recognition, with no significant differences observed in the AV modality.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"344-364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of Orthographic Input and Inhibitory Control on Second-Language Speech Production. 正字法输入和抑制控制对第二语言语音生成的影响

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241270737

Jeong-Im Han, Song Yi Kim, Joo-Yeon Kim

{"title":"Effects of Orthographic Input and Inhibitory Control on Second-Language Speech Production.","authors":"Jeong-Im Han, Song Yi Kim, Joo-Yeon Kim","doi":"10.1177/00238309241270737","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241270737","url":null,"abstract":"The present study extends previous research reporting that orthographic forms, such as the use of a single letter or two letters to indicate the same sound, affect sound duration in second-language (L2) production. Native-language (L1) Korean L2 English sequential bilinguals performed a delayed repetition task for word pairs containing the same consonant or vowel spelled with one or two letters. Korean provided an interesting case because (1) it has an alphabetic orthographic system but not a Roman alphabet and thus, there may be no interorthographic interference and (2) it has no phonemic length contrast for vowels, whereas there is some disagreement on the contrastiveness of the consonant length, which can lead to an asymmetry in the grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence between vowels and consonants. The results showed that Korean learners produced the same English vowel with a short duration when spelled with a single letter and with a long duration when spelled with double letters or digraphs composed of two different letters; this variation in duration did not appear when producing English consonants spelled with a single or two letters. This study further examined whether individual differences in inhibitory control influenced the magnitude of orthographic effects in the production of English vowels by Korean learners. Individual differences in inhibitory control were not strongly related to the influence of orthography on vowel production.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"391-412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Investigation of Language-Specific and Orthographic Effects in L2 Arabic geminate production by Advanced Japanese- and English-speaking learners. 高级日语和英语学习者在学习第二语言阿拉伯语时产生的语言特异性和正字法效应的研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241267876

Albandary Aldossari, Ryan Andrew Stevenson, Yasaman Rafat

{"title":"An Investigation of Language-Specific and Orthographic Effects in L2 Arabic geminate production by Advanced Japanese- and English-speaking learners.","authors":"Albandary Aldossari, Ryan Andrew Stevenson, Yasaman Rafat","doi":"10.1177/00238309241267876","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241267876","url":null,"abstract":"Research has indicated that second-language learners have difficulty producing geminates accurately. Previous studies have also shown an effect of orthography on second-language speech production. We tested whether the existence of a contrast in the first language phonology for length aids the second-language production of the same contrast. Furthermore, we examined the effect of exposure to orthographic input on geminate consonant production in a cross-script context. We tested the production of Arabic geminate-singleton stop consonants [/bː/-/b/, /tː/-/t/, /dː/-/d/, and /kː/-/k/], a nasal stop consonant /mː/-/m/, and an emphatic stop consonant /tˤː/-/tˤ/, as well as the effect of the diacritic used in Arabic to mark gemination in a delayed imitation task and two reading tasks (ortho-with diacritics and ortho-without diacritics). A comparison of the productions of advanced Japanese-speaking learners, English-speaking learners, and an Arabic control group showed that both learner groups were able to produce Arabic geminate stops; however, the Japanese-speaking learners exhibited an advantage over the English-speaking learners in the auditory-only task and in the presence of diacritics, highlighting the fact that orthographic effects may occur in some cross-script contexts.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"365-390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12106925/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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