The present study investigates linguistic relativity. Do form differences between Dutch and English influence the interpretations which speakers have? The Dutch element en in noun-noun compounds, for example in aardbeienjam ‘strawberry jam’ is homophonous and homographic with the regular plural suffix -en. English, in contrast, has no such typical linking elements in compounds. We therefore inv...

A large number of non-native English speakers may be found in American classrooms, both as listeners and talkers. Little is known about how this population comprehends speech in realistic adverse acoustical conditions. A study was conducted to investigate the effects of background noise level (BNL), reverberation time (RT), and talker foreign accent on native and non-native listeners' speech co...

The study focused on phonetic imitation in the speech of Polish learners of English, who were exposed to two pronunciation varieties: Polishaccented English and native English. The phonetic variables under investigation were voicing lag values in word-initial /p k/ and voicing lead values in word-initial /b g/. The stimuli were monosyllabic English words provided by two model talkers: a native ...

Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis. Persuasion, as part of rhetorical structure of academic writing, is partly achieved by employing modality markers.  Adopting a descriptive design, the present study was carried out to compare the use of modality markers in terms...

Phonological transfer from the native language is a common problem for non-native speakers that has repeatedly been shown to result in perceptual deficits vis-à-vis native speakers. It was hypothesized, however, that transfer could help, rather than hurt, if it resulted in a beneficial bias. Due to differences in pronunciation norms between Korean and English, Koreans in the U.S. were predicted...

In this paper, we empirically explore the relationship between native language and use of the Internet. The ultimate economic and social questions we explore are: (1) how native language affects use of the Internet, both in total and by type of Web site; (2) whether English is likely to retain its “first-mover advantage” on the Web in terms of the language employed by Web sites; and (3) whether...

This study examined the processing correlates of aspectual coercion among native and non-native speakers of English. For native English speakers, results suggested that the processing delay associated with aspectual coercion is minimal. Aspectual coercion was perhaps cognitively easy to perform. By contrast, non-native speakers of English from unlike first language (L1) backgrounds differed in ...

Creativity research crucially relies on creativity evaluations by external raters, but it is not clear what properties characterize good raters. In the present study, we investigated whether rater personality and are related to discernment (i.e., ability distinguish creative from uncreative responses) when evaluating others’ responses. To this end, 166 novice raters evaluated a pre-selected set...

This study tries to investigate the perception of Saudi students at Jazan University about native English-speaking teachers (NEST) and non-native based on their teaching language skills grammar. The 50 English was collected from taught by these teachers. findings show that are outstanding reading, listening speaking. In contrast, very good grammar, reading writing skills. will help government e...