The present study examined to what extent proficiency in a non-native language influences speech perception in noise. We explored how English proficiency affected native (Swedish) and non-native (English) speech perception in four speech reception threshold (SRT) conditions, including two energetic (stationary, fluctuating noise) and two informational (two-talker babble Swedish, two-talker babb...

background and purpose: this study intends to identify the numbers and some characteristics of the teachers of various english courses offered at medical universities affiliated to the ministry of health during the second semester of the academic year 2005-6. methods: the methods used in this research were “gathering existing data”, and “descriptive study”. the research was conducted by sending...

This paper presents an initial effort in the area of nonnative children’s speech recognition by exploiting two children databases, one consisting of speech collected from native English children, the other one consisting of English sentences read by Italian learners of English in the same age range of the native speakers. First, a baseline speech recognizer for British English was trained on th...

This paper describes the collection of a bilingual database of Finnish/English and German/English data. In addition, the accents of the talkers in the database have been rated. English, German and Finnish listeners assessed the English, German and Finnish talkers’ degree of foreign accent in English. Native English listeners showed higher inter-listener agreement than non-native listeners. Furt...

The implementation of the voicing of the English word-final obstruents constitutes a serious problem for foreign speakers of English whose native languages organize the phonological 'voicing' contrast differently. Polish teachers and learners of English implement too few and too sharply-cut rules whose application produces unnatural rendering of the English voicing distinction, with overemphasi...

Description The smart phone dictionary for Android phones and tablets is being developed by a team that includes a translator, terminologist, English teachers, native speakers of English (a linguist and a person with a military background), and servicemen as needed. As of April 2015 there are about 1200 entries. Entries come from two main sources: translations and curricula of the ENDC. All ent...

This study is a contrastive analysis between the phonological patterns of standard colloquial Bangla(an Indo-European language widely used in Bangladesh and the eastern part of India) and British English at both segmental and supra-segmental levels. This study will contrast Bangla phonological system with the English one and will attempt to point out possible difficulties that native Bangali le...

This study investigates how native prosodic systems as well as L2 learning experience shape non-native tone production in terms of tone movement, a primary cue to tone identity. In an imitation task, the six Cantonese tones were produced by four speaker groups: native Mandarin speakers (tonal), native English speakers (non-tonal), native English speakers with Mandarin learning experience (L2 to...