This position paper highlights the importance of suprasegmental training in secondary language (L2) acquisition. Suprasegmental features are manifested in terms of acoustic cues and convey important information about linguistic and information structures. Hence, L2 learners must harness appropriate suprasegmental productions for effective communication. However, this learning process is influen...

The present study seeks to investigate the attitudes of Moroccan EFL learners (MEFLLs) towards different varieties English speech (World Englishes (WE)). utilises a direct method attitude measurement as study’s participants are directly asked about their own explicit six speech[1] (namely, American English, British Indian Filipino Japanese and Thai English). A sample 544 MEFLLs was recruited in...

Small, manually assembled corpora may be available for less dominant languages and dialects, but producing web-scale resources remains a challenge. Even when considerable quantities of text are present on the web, finding this text, and distinguishing it from related languages in the same region can be difficult. For example less dominant variants of English (e.g. New Zealander, Singaporean, Ca...

Abstract This study illustrates how speech features that emerged from language contact and acquisition in a pluralistic society can accrue diverse social-indexical meanings over time. The social perceptions towards three variants of coda /l/ Singapore English—namely dark-l, the variant associated with prescriptive norms, clear-l vocalised-l, which are arose through contact—are examined. finding...