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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

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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

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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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Cross-Linguistic Association Between Phonological Awareness and Connected Speech Perception Skills of Chinese EFL Young Learners. 中国青年英语学习者语音意识与关联言语知觉技能的跨语言关联

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251338748

Huichao Bi, Rong Yan, Samad Zare

{"title":"Cross-Linguistic Association Between Phonological Awareness and Connected Speech Perception Skills of Chinese EFL Young Learners.","authors":"Huichao Bi, Rong Yan, Samad Zare","doi":"10.1177/00238309251338748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251338748","url":null,"abstract":"Phonological awareness (PA) is of great significance to children's early language learning and cognitive development. However, there has been a clear lack of research on the role of PA in developing children's perception of connected speech in foreign languages. Thus, this study focused on the cross-linguistic association between PA and children's connected speech perception skills. A total of 82 10- to-11-year-old Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners participated in a battery of tasks on English connected speech perception and English and Chinese PA. The data yielded three critical results based on correlation, linear regression, Sobel test, and bootstrapping analyses. First, EFL young learners' English connected speech perception skills were significantly associated with their English and Chinese PA. Second, English phonemic and Chinese sound awareness were recognized as predictors of their connected speech perception skills. Moreover, the results further revealed that Chinese tone awareness predicted English connected speech perception skills via a direct pathway through Chinese sound awareness as a mediator. These findings demonstrated a cross-linguistic positive correlation between PA and connected speech perception skills from graphic to alphabetic characters in childhood. The results of this study shed light on teaching strategies for connected speech in EFL primary school education.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251338748"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192518","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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Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops. 朝鲜难民的第二次方言习得：获得首尔韩语停顿。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251334102

Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru, Charlotte Vaughn

{"title":"Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops.","authors":"Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru, Charlotte Vaughn","doi":"10.1177/00238309251334102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251334102","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined Korean three-way stop contrasts produced by North Korean (NK) immigrant speakers now living in South Korea, from the perspective of second dialect acquisition (SDA). Their production was compared with that of South Korean (SK) speakers. SK speakers and NK refugee speakers (N = 22 each) completed three tasks designed to elicit careful and conversational speech: reading aloud lists of one-syllable words and short phrases and participating in a sociolinguistic interview. The potential acoustic cues voice onset time (VOT), F0, and H1-H2 were measured and analyzed for 14,478 stops. Results indicated that in conversational speech (interview), SK speakers neutralized VOT between lenis and aspirated and used F0 robustly to differentiate the two categories, while distinguishing the long VOT for lenis and aspirated from the short VOT for fortis stops. In careful speech (reading one-syllable words), SK speakers differentiated all three categories by VOT. In contrast, NK speakers distinguished all three categories by VOT in all tasks, except for neutralizing the contrast for fortis and lenis in phrase reading. Furthermore, F0 was not used as robustly by NK as by SK speakers. We also examined the effects of age of arrival (AoA) and length of residence (LoR) on NK speakers' SDA. Our results indicated that the longer the NK refugees lived in SK, the more they could produce more SK-like stops. The results suggest that NK stop contrasts are likely distinguished by VOT, and these refugee speakers are in the process of acquiring SK stop patterns.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251334102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144182715","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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Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks. 早期发展过程中的系统性：语音网络的分析。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251331595

Catherine E Laing

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A Model of Attitudinal Reasons for Neologism Use. 新词使用的态度原因模型。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251336780

Sabrina Link, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Devin G Ray

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Acoustic Cues in the Production and Perception of Cantonese Sarcasm. 粤语反讽产生与感知的声学线索。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251333766

Chen Lan, Peggy Mok

{"title":"Acoustic Cues in the Production and Perception of Cantonese Sarcasm.","authors":"Chen Lan, Peggy Mok","doi":"10.1177/00238309251333766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251333766","url":null,"abstract":"Sarcasm has been associated with several acoustic cues, but exploration of such cues in Cantonese has been limited. The present study revisited the production and perception of sarcasm in Cantonese, investigating how prosodic features and voice quality measures signal sarcastic speech and how well they can be recognized. Eighteen native Hong Kong Cantonese speakers produced colloquial sentences with three attitudes: sarcasm, neutrality, and sincerity. Five prosodic parameters and three voice quality parameters were analyzed and compared between attitudes, genders, and individual speakers. In addition, 42 native listeners rated the degree of sarcasm and sincerity of the target utterances. Average rating scores were compared between attitudes. Results show that Cantonese sarcasm is characterized by a slower speech rate, lower mean F0, narrower F0 range, lower mean amplitude, greater amplitude range, higher harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR), lower jitter, and lower shimmer than sincere speech. Speakers utilized different combinations of acoustic cues to express sarcastic feeling. Listeners were able to distinguish sarcasm from sincerity according to the acoustic cues alone in the absence of verbal context. The more acoustic cues were utilized in a sarcastic utterance, the easier it would be for the listeners to understand the implied sarcastic meaning. Moreover, the insertion of an intensifier \"zan55hai22 (really)\" enhanced the sarcastic intonation, increasing listeners' accuracy at recognizing the speaker's sarcastic intention. The present study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between prosody and sarcastic speech by using an improved method and providing evidence of production and perception in native Cantonese speakers.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251333766"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144395","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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Production and Perception Errors From Speech Error Corpora Reflect Macro- and Meso-Level Structure of the Phonological Language Network. 语音错误语料库中的产生错误和感知错误反映了语音语言网络的宏观和中观结构。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251330878

Cynthia S Q Siew, Jonas Fine W Z Tan

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