Are nonwords really superior to real words to train l2 sounds? Insights from an HVPT study on L2 English front vowels - Volume 47

The effect of morphological salience and novel phonology in the initial stage of second language learning

This chapter summarizes the methods generally employed to characterize the phonetic behavior — including pronunciation (production) and listening (perception) — and underlying phonological representat...

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The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...

Purpose: This study aims to address the critical gap in research on real-time language processing in adults with developmental language disorder ...

Cognitive Neuroscience arises from the concentration of efforts from such diverse areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and clinical neuropsychology, among others, as well as f...

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition - Luke Plonsky

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Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity

Purpose: There is a growing body of research on developmental language disorder (DLD), but very few studies have focused on the role of cognitive...

This study explored how different cognitive abilities support language in adults with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Sixty adults—30 with DLD and 30 without—completed a series of o...

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Cognitive Neuroscience arises from the concentration of efforts from such diverse areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and clinical neuropsychology, among others, as well as f...

This paper is a methodological contribution outlining an approach we have developed to recording ultrasound tongue imaging and audio research data as part of public engagement work. The paper is based...

Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts

Phonological processing and the L2 mental lexicon

Hawaiian, or ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the islands of Hawaiʻi. This study examines oral stops in Hawaiian as produce…

Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks

This study investigates the relative roles of frequency and transparency in native speakers’ comprehension of Spanish object relative sentences by comparing performance with two variants of the constr...

Non-native tone categorization and word learning across a spectrum of L1 tonal statuses