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Frequency Effects in the L2 Acquisition of French Liaison: A Corpus-Based Adaptation of Gradient Symbolic Representations. 法语联络习得中的频率效应：基于语料库的梯度符号表征适应。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261454373

Britta Gemmeke

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Prominence and Grouping in Papuan Malay Prosody Perception. 巴布亚马来语韵律感知中的突出与分组。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261455331

Constantijn Kaland

{"title":"Prominence and Grouping in Papuan Malay Prosody Perception.","authors":"Constantijn Kaland","doi":"10.1177/00238309261455331","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309261455331","url":null,"abstract":"For successful processing of the speech signal, listeners need to perform at least two prosodic tasks: allocating prominences and grouping into smaller units. The separation of these two functions has been a fundamental assumption in the modeling of prosody production and perception across languages. The current study investigates how listeners allocate prominences and demarcate (group) them at the word level in Papuan Malay, an under-researched language of Papua, Indonesia. To this end, a tapping and a grouping task were carried out using acoustically manipulated sequences of strong and weak syllables. It was tested how duration, intensity, spectral tilt and vowel quality affect listeners' prominence and grouping responses. The results show that, taking into account the variation among participants and items, all cues facilitate prominence allocation, in particular if they are strong enough. Spectral tilt was the main cue found to affect grouping, although duration seemed to play a double role for both prominence and grouping. The outcomes are discussed not only for how they improve our understanding of Papuan Malay prosody, but also for their contribution to the separation of perceptual functions in prosodic theory.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261455331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148340809","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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Perceptual Tuning to Structure: Integrating the Phonetic Detail of Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization With Prosodic and Information Structure. 感知调谐到结构：将协发音元音鼻化的语音细节与韵律结构和信息结构相结合。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261453071

Sahyang Kim, Holger Mitterer, Taehong Cho

{"title":"Perceptual Tuning to Structure: Integrating the Phonetic Detail of Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization With Prosodic and Information Structure.","authors":"Sahyang Kim, Holger Mitterer, Taehong Cho","doi":"10.1177/00238309261453071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261453071","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores prosodically driven perceptual adjustment of a non-contrastive coarticulatory feature. Specifically, it examines how prosodic prominence and information structure influence the perception of anticipatory vowel nasalization in CVN in American English as a cue to an upcoming nasal consonant. Using a two-alternative forced-choice task, we tested whether the same acoustic degree of nasalization is interpreted differently depending on prosodic and information-structural contexts, and whether these effects are consistent across native English speakers and Korean learners of English. Listeners identified target words (Bob or bomb) from a nasalization continuum embedded in carrier sentences (\"(No,) Riley wrote Bob/bomb slowly\"), where the coda consonant was masked by noise. Prosodic prominence was manipulated by adjusting pitch and amplitude of surrounding words while keeping the target constant; and information structure was manipulated by including or omitting No, signaling contrastive focus. For a given stimulus, listeners gave more nasal responses (bomb) when the target was prosodically prominent or preceded by No, implying that they compensate for reduced vowel nasality in these contexts. The fact that No influenced perception independent of prosody suggests that information structure can modulate perceptual compensation beyond acoustic-prosodic cues, reflecting a top-down effect of discourse meaning. Finally, although Korean listeners gave fewer nasal responses overall-possibly due to reliance on acoustic detail or perceptual hypercorrection-both groups showed similar sensitivity to prosodic and information-structural cues. These findings taken together point toward a shared perceptual mechanism in both native and non-native perception that integrates fine-grained phonetic detail with prosodic and information-structural contexts.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261453071"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148304026","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 the Phonetic Variation of the Word-Initial /l/ and /n/ Across Regional Varieties of Mandarin. 普通话区域变体中“/l/”和“/n/”声母的音变研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261453016

Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Ratree Wayland, H Henny Yeung, Yue Wang

{"title":"An Investigation of the Phonetic Variation of the Word-Initial /l/ and /n/ Across Regional Varieties of Mandarin.","authors":"Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Ratree Wayland, H Henny Yeung, Yue Wang","doi":"10.1177/00238309261453016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261453016","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how word-initial /l/ and /n/ are phonetically realized in Mandarin Chinese as produced by speakers from three regions: Beijing (close to Standard Mandarin), Changsha (where Xiang, which contains /l/ but not /n/, is also spoken locally), and Meizhou (where Hakka, which contains both /l/ and /n/, is also spoken locally), focusing on acoustic cue use and phonological context effects. Using acoustic analysis and random forest classification, we analyzed five acoustic measures (F2-F1 spacing, F3 frequency, BW1, ΔA1, and A1-P0) and evaluated their contribution to distinguishing the two sounds. Results showed that speakers from different regions used distinct cue weighting strategies: Beijing Mandarin speakers relied more on spectral cues, Meizhou Mandarin speakers showed greater reliance on nasality-related cues, and Changsha Mandarin speakers combined both, with greater variability. Phonological context, including preceding nasals and following vowels, further modulated cue realization in region-specific ways. These findings demonstrate how native phonological background and phonological environment shape the phonetic implementation of a shared Mandarin contrast and illustrate the value of combining acoustic and classification-based approaches for modeling gradient phonetic variation.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261453016"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279928","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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Motivation, Anxiety, and Enjoyment in L2 Pronunciation: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study. 二语发音的动机、焦虑和享受：一项横断面和纵向研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261452263

Tao Jiang, Yingli Yang

{"title":"Motivation, Anxiety, and Enjoyment in L2 Pronunciation: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Tao Jiang, Yingli Yang","doi":"10.1177/00238309261452263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261452263","url":null,"abstract":"Echoing recent calls for exploring skill-specific individual-difference factors, this two-part study investigated the predictive effect of pronunciation anxiety, enjoyment, and motivation on Chinese university English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' global second-language (L2) speech learning. Study 1 cross-sectionally investigated the predictive effects of emotional and motivational factors on 82 participants' comprehensibility and accentedness attainment based on expert raters' evaluation of speech samples elicited from a long-turn monologic task. Statistical results found that comprehensibility was unrelated to participants' emotions and motivation, while pronunciation anxiety negatively predicted accentedness. Study 2 explored 65 participants' speech development following an 8-week explicit pronunciation instruction. Results revealed that participants developed both accentedness and comprehensibility after pronunciation instruction, regardless of their different emotional and motivational traits. Theoretical insights into revising speech acquisition models and pedagogical implications for pronunciation teaching were discussed.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261452263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148201034","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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How Much Do We Imitate in a Non-Native Language? Explicit Versus Implicit Imitation in L2 Speech. 我们用非母语模仿多少？二语言语中的外显模仿与内隐模仿。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261452274

Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Pavel Šturm, Joanna Przedlacka, Błażej Wieczorek

{"title":"How Much Do We Imitate in a Non-Native Language? Explicit Versus Implicit Imitation in L2 Speech.","authors":"Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Pavel Šturm, Joanna Przedlacka, Błażej Wieczorek","doi":"10.1177/00238309261452274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261452274","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research on imitation in L1 has shown that explicit instructions generally generate more robust convergence with the model talker than implicit instructions. However, this regularity has not gained sufficient empirical attention in L2 speech imitation. To address this gap, we examined English vowel duration variability as a cue to following voiced versus voiceless consonants (vowel clipping) in 28 Czech and 28 Polish L2 learners of English. Neither Czech nor Polish uses vowel clipping as a voicing cue in the L1. Participants completed three tasks: (1) baseline, (2) imitation, and (3) post-test. Our results confirmed convergence towards the model stimuli during imitation, but this effect diminished in the post-test. The critical manipulation involved the imitation task: half of the participants were explicitly instructed to imitate the model voice as accurately as possible (explicit imitation), whereas the other half performed a simple oral identification task (implicit imitation). Contrary to predictions based on L1 imitation studies, explicit instructions did not increase the magnitude of convergence in L2 learners in our study. Moreover, the results showed that the Czech and Polish participants exhibited comparable degrees of convergence with the native English model, thus replicating the null effect of instruction type across two language groups. We discuss the current results by offering two lines of reasoning as to why explicit instructions did not, in our study or more generally, lead to more imitation in L2 speech.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261452274"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148206787","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 : 2026-06-01 Epub 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":"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":"412-440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","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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Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study. 遥远语言可理解性的来源：一个实证研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251345952

Jiří Milička, Anna Marklová, Michal Láznička, Vojtěch Diatka, Hana Bednářová, Jiří Matela, Michal Škrabal

{"title":"Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study.","authors":"Jiří Milička, Anna Marklová, Michal Láznička, Vojtěch Diatka, Hana Bednářová, Jiří Matela, Michal Škrabal","doi":"10.1177/00238309251345952","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251345952","url":null,"abstract":"Research into iconicity, systematicity, and sound-symbolism has revealed that the connection between linguistic form and meaning is not completely arbitrary. In the present study, native Czech speakers, unfamiliar with Hindi, were presented with a task in which they had to match Hindi words with their corresponding Czech translations. The words were randomly selected from a Hindi corpus. Despite the considerable linguistic gap between the two languages, the analysis showed that the Czech participants were able to accurately discern the meanings of approximately 60% of the Hindi word pairs, surpassing the 50% success rate that would be expected by random guessing alone. This experiment was subsequently replicated using Turkish, Japanese, and Latvian words, demonstrating the robustness of this phenomenon across different languages. In the case of a closer language like Latvian, the success rate reached 80%. However, even a distant language such as Japanese reached the 60% success level. Furthermore, the study explored potential factors influencing intelligibility. Data collected from a total of 1,128 participants found that the phonological similarity of Czech words and their translation, word length alignment, presence of cognates, and the way the trials were presented had a significant effect on the success rate of guessing the correct translation across all four languages. In addition, language-specific effects were identified.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"505-534"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13195064/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144621054","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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Sleep Soundly! Sleep Deprivation Impairs Perception of Spoken Sentences in Challenging Listening Conditions. 睡得很香!睡眠剥夺损害在挑战性听力条件下口语句子的感知。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251322954

Boaz M Ben-David, Michal Icht, Gil Zukerman, Nir Fink, Leah Fostick

{"title":"Sleep Soundly! Sleep Deprivation Impairs Perception of Spoken Sentences in Challenging Listening Conditions.","authors":"Boaz M Ben-David, Michal Icht, Gil Zukerman, Nir Fink, Leah Fostick","doi":"10.1177/00238309251322954","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251322954","url":null,"abstract":"Speech perception, a daily task crucial for social interaction, is often performed after sleep deprivation (SD). However, there is only scant research on the effects of SD on real-life speech tasks. Speech-processing models (FUEL, ELU) suggest that challenging listening conditions require a greater allocation of cognitive resources, while ideal listening conditions (speech in quiet) require minimal resources. Therefore, SD, which reduces cognitive reserve, may adversely affect speech perception under challenging, but not ideal, conditions. The goal of this study was to test this, manipulating the extent of available resources (with/without SD) and task difficulty in three conditions: sentences presented in (a) quiet, (b) background noise, and (c) with emotional prosody, where participants identified the emotions conveyed by the speaker. The performance of young adults (n = 41) was assessed twice, after nocturnal sleep and after a 24-hr SD in three tasks: (a) sentence repetition in quiet, and (b) noise, and (c) emotion identification of spoken sentences. Results partially supported our hypotheses. The perception of spoken sentences was impaired by SD, but noise-level did not interact with SD effect. Results suggest that 24-hr SD reduces cognitive resources, which in turn impairs listeners' ability (or motivation) to perform daily functions of speech perception. Theoretically, findings directly relate SD to speech perception, supporting current theoretical speech models. Clinically, we suggest that SD should be considered in daily clinical settings, e.g., hearing tests. Finally, professions that require shift work, such as health care, should consider the negative effects of SD on spoken communication.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"259-277"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143702160","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 : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251330878

Cynthia S Q Siew, Jonas Fine W Z Tan

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