Spoken word identification by native and nonnative speakers of English: effects of training, modality, context and phonetic environment
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Several experiments explored the contribution of visual information (lip movements) to spoken word identification by Japanese and Korean learners of English as a second language (ESL) and native speakers (NSs) of English, and its interaction with sentence context, phonetic environment and, for ESL learners, perceptual training (involving /m,l,p,f,},s/) using
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