{"title":"COVID silver linings","authors":"John M. Levis, Sinem Sonsaat Hegelheimer","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.21001.LEV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.21001.LEV","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The global pandemic caused a storm of cancellations of professional conferences and professional travel, but the\u0000 storm has also had technological silver linings in opportunities for professional development including greater numbers of\u0000 webinars, virtual conferences, and new uses of videoconferencing. We expect that many of these new expansions of professional\u0000 development will continue in the field of L2 pronunciation.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46031792","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}
Vikas Grover, V. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, D. Whalen, Erika S. Levy
{"title":"Perception of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English","authors":"Vikas Grover, V. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, D. Whalen, Erika S. Levy","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.20033.GRO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.20033.GRO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examined perception of the American English (AE) /v/-/w/ consonant contrast by Hindi speakers of\u0000 English as a second language (L2). A second aim was to determine whether residence in the US modulated perception of this\u0000 difficult contrast for proficient bilingual Hindi-English listeners. Two groups of Hindi-English bilinguals (the first resided in\u0000 the US for more than five years, the second lived in India) and a group of AE-speaking listeners participated in the study.\u0000 Listeners’ identification and discrimination of nonsense words (e.g., “vagag” vs. “wagag”) were examined. Hindi listeners\u0000 performed significantly less accurately than AE controls. Accuracy by Hindi listeners was near chance for identification and\u0000 higher-than-chance for discrimination. Exposure to AE in the US did not improve performance. These results are consistent with\u0000 previous studies of late L2 learners and extend findings to a population that was proficient in an L2 before arriving in the L2\u0000 environment.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49019824","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}
Rachel Hayes-Harb, Shannon L. Barrios, Alayo Tripp
{"title":"Whose input matters?","authors":"Rachel Hayes-Harb, Shannon L. Barrios, Alayo Tripp","doi":"10.17605/OSF.IO/UW8Y5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UW8Y5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Input is a necessary condition for language acquisition. In the language classroom, input may come from a variety of sources, including the teacher and student peers. Here we ask whether adult Lx learners are sensitive to the social roles of teachers and students such that they exhibit a preference for input from the teacher. We conducted an experiment wherein adult English speakers heard words in an artificial language. During an exposure phase, in one condition a “teacher” produced words with 25 ms of VOT on initial stop segments and a “student” produced the same words with 125 msec of VOT; in another condition the VOT durations were reversed. At test, participants judged productions by a different “student” and demonstrated a preference for the productions that matched the VOT durations of the teacher during exposure, providing evidence for an influence of social factors in differentiating input in Lx acquisition.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44175055","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}
{"title":"25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/jslp.6.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.6.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47491051","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}
{"title":"Maximizing the effect of visual feedback for pronunciation instruction","authors":"Daniel J. Olson, Heather M. Offerman","doi":"10.1075/jslp.20005.ols","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20005.ols","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Visual feedback, in which learners visually analyze acoustic speech characteristics, has been shown to significantly improve pronunciation, but extant research has varied widely with respect to the target feature, length of the intervention, and type of intervention. This study presents a comparative analysis of three methods of visual feedback for L2 segmental pronunciation instruction. These methods, all focused on training voice onset time for English-speaking learners of Spanish, differed in duration of instruction (i.e., short and long) and the nature of each intervention (i.e., phonemes presented simultaneously or sequentially). Results show that while all forms of visual feedback significantly improve L2 Spanish pronunciation, evidenced by a reduction in voice onset time, the greatest improvement was found following both longer treatments and a sequential approach. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44667993","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}
{"title":"L2 pronunciation networking and conferences","authors":"John M. Levis","doi":"10.1075/jslp.20029.lev","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20029.lev","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Professional conferences are a critical part of a growing and thriving field. L2 pronunciation has a growing\u0000 number of dedicated conferences, and other long-standing conferences that are related to L2 pronunciation have seen greater\u0000 participation from L2 pronunciation researchers as the field has grown. This article describes conferences that are of interest to\u0000 the field of L2 pronunciation.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47385333","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}
Kym Taylor Reid, M. O’Brien, P. Trofimovich, A. Bajt
{"title":"Testing the malleability of teachers’ judgments of second language speech","authors":"Kym Taylor Reid, M. O’Brien, P. Trofimovich, A. Bajt","doi":"10.1075/jslp.19015.tay","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.19015.tay","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examined whether a negative social bias can influence how teachers evaluate second language (L2)\u0000 speech. Twenty-eight teachers of L2 German from Western Canada – 14 native speakers (NSs) and 14 proficient non-native speakers\u0000 (NNSs) – rated recordings of 24 adult L2 learners of German across five speech dimensions (accentedness, comprehensibility,\u0000 vowel/consonant accuracy, intonation, flow) using 1,000-point scales. Immediately before rating, half of NS and NNS teachers heard\u0000 critical comments about undergraduate German students’ language skills, while the other half heard no biasing comments. Under\u0000 negative bias, while the NNS teachers provided favorable evaluations across all five measures, NS teachers followed suit for only\u0000 intonation and flow, downgrading L2 speakers’ accentedness, comprehensibility, and vowel/consonant accuracy. Findings call into\u0000 question the relative stability of L2 speech ratings and highlight the importance of social context and teacher status as native\u0000 versus non-native speakers of the target language in assessments of L2 speaking performance.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43969391","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}
{"title":"Evaluating two ways for marking Swedish phonological length in written text","authors":"B. Thorén, Hyeseung Jeong","doi":"10.1075/jslp.19001.tho","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.19001.tho","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study compares two different graphic marking systems designed to help L2 learners of Swedish notice and\u0000 realize phonological length. In System A, 22 L2 learners read aloud three /VːC/ words with length marked under long vowels and\u0000 three /VCː/words with dots under short vowels. Twenty-two other L2 learners read the same words marked by the other system (System\u0000 B) that underlines long vowels and long consonants. As a control group, 20 native Swedish speakers read the same words without any\u0000 marking. We measured and compared the temporal realizations of the six words by all the three groups. System B readers realized\u0000 Swedish phonological length more closely to the way that native speakers did, compared to System A readers. These results suggest\u0000 that prompting both long vowels and long consonants can be more effective than marking long and short vowels.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44445884","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}
{"title":"Phonological (in)visibility","authors":"W. Chappell","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.17034.CHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.17034.CHA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Reduced vowels between obstruents and rhotics are durationally variable and phonologically invisible in Spanish,\u0000 e.g. p\u0000 ə\u0000 rado ‘field’ as /pɾ/. The present study compares L1-Spanish speakers, English\u0000 monolinguals, and L2-Spanish learners’ perceptual boundaries for reduced vowels in Spanish. A native speaker produced 70 Spanish\u0000 nonce words with word-initial obstruent + vowel + flap sequences, and the duration of each vowel was manipulated from 100% to 75%,\u0000 50%, and 25% of its original duration. To determine whether these groups perceive variably reduced vowels as phonologically\u0000 visible, 78 listeners counted the number of syllables perceived in 280 target audio files. Linear regression models fitted to\u0000 21,436 responses indicate that English monolinguals apply an L1 perceptual strategy, but L2-Spanish learners have shifted their\u0000 perceptual boundaries. The study concludes that the perception of highly variable acoustic information becomes more native-like\u0000 with greater L2 proficiency, while age of acquisition is less predictive of native-like perception.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48305435","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}
{"title":"Nonnative accent and the perceived grammaticality of spoken grammar forms","authors":"June Ruivivar, Laura Collins","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.17039.RUI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.17039.RUI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Scholars advocate for more classroom attention to be paid to spoken grammar which deviates from commonly taught rules of writing.\u0000 However, these recommendations have not considered potential barriers that learners may encounter when using spoken grammar with\u0000 L1 speakers. We investigate one such challenge: the effect of learners’ accents and degree of accentedness on how their use of\u0000 these forms is subjectively perceived by L1 speakers. Ten non-expert raters rated the grammatical acceptability of four frequent\u0000 spoken grammar forms, read out by 15 speakers (10 L1 Tagalog, 5 L1 English) rated as having heavy, moderate, or no accents. A\u0000 one-way ANOVA revealed a significant effect of accent on grammaticality scores. Post-hoc tests showed a strong correlation between\u0000 accent and perceived grammaticality, with more accented speakers scoring significantly lower on grammaticality. The discussion\u0000 considers implications for spoken grammar teaching, and future research on the relationship between accent and perceived\u0000 grammaticality.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44483325","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}