Abstract The present study uses an acoustic analysis to examine the effects of implicit and explicit pronunciation instruction on acquisition German final devoicing in L2 classroom. Twenty-nine English-speaking learners at a North American university were assigned or condition. Learner speech samples recorded, following pre/post/delayed-post-test design. Four correlates medial obstruent voicing...

Recent research suggests speech perception processes are flexible. For example, Norris et al. [Norris D, McQueen JM, & Cutler A (2003). Cognit. Psychol., 47, 204-238] demonstrated that listeners trained on stimuli containing ambiguous /s/-/f/ tokens subsequently showed an appropriate shift in their /s/-/f/ categorization boundaries based on the lexicality of the training stimuli. The present st...

Iraqi EFL learners often mispronounce the two affricate sounds in English: unvoiced /tʃ/ and voiced /dʒ/ owing to a lack of exposure English as foreign language. In this paper, researcher investigates problems, which are vital discuss mispronunciation problems affricates colleges arts. The first problem is why undergraduates face-to-face training e-learning second what phonological process occu...

Properties of syllable onset /l/ that depend on the voicing of the syllable coda were measured for four speakers, representing different non-rhotic British English accents that differ in their phonetic realisation of onset /l/ and in their system of phonological contrast involving onset /l/ and /r/. Onset /l/ was longer before voiced than voiceless codas for all four speakers, and darker for tw...

A study investigated the substitution of the Japanese flap for English liquids In and /1/ by 11 Japanese students in their first and fourth years of college. Phonological patterns were examined at the two different stages, in reading vs. spontaneous oral language tasks, and for word-initial singleton vs. word-initial cluster environments. The number of obligatory instances of In and /1/ for eac...