This study investigates the relationship between non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels by eight European Spanish monolinguals. Participants’ accuracy on a non-native discrimination task was used to predict performance in non-native production. We also investigated the acoustic similarity between participants’ non-native and native vowel productions. The findin...

Bilinguals are better able to perceive speech-in-noise in their native compared to their non-native language. This benefit is thought to be due to greater use of higher-level, linguistic context in the native language. Previous studies showing this have used sentences and do not allow us to determine which level of language contributes to this context benefit. Here, we used a new paradigm that ...

Little research has examined working memory capacity (WMC) in signed language interpreters and deaf signers. This paper presents the findings of a study that investigated WMC in professional Australian Sign Language (Auslan)/English interpreters and deaf signers. Thirty-one professional Auslan/English interpreters (14 hearing native signers and 17 hearing non-native signers) completed an Englis...

This article is devoted to the question of how a native speaker exercises his authority over non-native speaker. The research was carried out within framework theory linguistic imperialism. To reveal these relations, concept right correction introduced. describe figures and speaker, we turn researchers imperialism, in particular R. Phillipson, Yu. Tsuda, etc. It said that standard view dominanc...

The speech-to-song illusion has attracted interest as a probe of the perceptual interface between language and music. One might anticipate differential speech-to-song effects in tonal vs. non-tonal languages, since these language classes differ importantly in the linguistic value they assign to tones. Here we addressed this issue for the first time in a cohort of 20 healthy younger adults whose...

1567-4223/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2010.03.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 7 5254776; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. Lai), edu.tw (W.-J. Lin), [email protected] (G.E. K This study explores the influence of language familiarity on online persuasion behavior based on subjective measurements and objective actual negotiation beh...

This study investigates utterance-final pitch accents in declaratives in two contact languages (Catalan and Spanish) as produced by two groups of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals (Catalandominant and Spanish-dominant). It contributes to a growing body of research showing that bilinguals transfer the intonational patterns of their native language to their non-native language, and it provides a socioli...

Talker identification is heightened for native compared to non-native talkers, suggesting that language comprehension influences talker recognition. Research has revealed a gradient effect of language experience on talker recognition; adults with reading disability show poor talker identification even in their native language. We examined whether this gradient would be observed among adults wit...