Listeners posses a remarkable ability to attend to one of two speakers speaking at the same time (simultaneous speakers). The present research studied the role of speech rhythm involved in this process. In two experiments with the Coordinate Measure Response Corpus, listeners were asked to attend to one of two simultaneous speakers. In Experiment I native and French accented speakers of English...

This paper compares the language of child bilinguals and adult unbalanced bilinguals (heritage speakers) against that of bilingual native speakers of their home language (baseline). We identify four major vectors of correspondence across the language spoken by these three groups. First, all varieties may represent a given linguistic property in a similar way (child bilinguals = adult heritage s...

Non-native speakers often have difficulties with prosody; stress and intonation patterns that differ from those of native speakers can contribute to “foreign accent,” even at high proficiency levels. Although effects of a listener’s native language on the perception of prosody are well established, few studies have examined non-native prosody production. In particular, it is not known whether t...

As speech recognition systems improve in quality, they become attractive as components in applications which will be used by non-native speakers, both applications designed speciically for language learners and those intended for general use. Recognizer performance on speakers who are not uent in the language they are speaking, however, is often poor. A number of factors contribute to recogniti...

This study investigated perception by non-native listeners of English fricatives produced in clear and conversational speaking styles. We measured babble thresholds for fricative voicing and place of articulation contrasts by Standard German and Swabian German and native American English speakers. Overall, Swabian German speakers performed worse than both native English and Standard German spea...

This paper examines the impact that non-native speakers have had on the structure of Picard, a GalloRomance language spoken in northern France and southern Belgium. Focusing on neuter subjects, a construction that is characterized by a more complex system than the equivalent form in French (the other language spoken by all Picard speakers), we compare the systems used by native and non-native s...

Perception and production of English cues to plosive voicing by native Mandarin speakers" (2013). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 429. Abstract The acquisition of non-native sounds is a prominent feature of second language acquisition. Mandarin does not permit the voiced plosives /b d g/ or plosives in the syllable coda position, both features of many English words. This disparity presents a...

This research decolonises the concept of new native speakers to mean “those who are born in inner circle” and establishes that, there English Nigeria. More recently, a group has been identified known as; New Native Speakers. These mostly monolinguals, have good command Language. They without or with bit ability speak comprehend local language(s) used around them. The speaker is 21st-century phe...

This study examined how well phonetic similarity predicted ultimate attainment in the production of Danish /i, y, u/ and /d, t/ by highly experienced native speakers of English and of Spanish. Experiment 1 compared the VOT of /d, t/ and the F2 of /i, y, u/ as produced by native speakers of the three languages. Experiment 2 examined the perceptual assimilation of Danish [i, y, u] to native /i, u...

Non-native speakers have lower linguistic competence than native speakers, which renders their language less reliable in conveying their intentions. We suggest that expectations of lower competence lead listeners to adapt their manner of processing when they listen to non-native speakers. We propose that listeners use cognitive resources to adjust by increasing their reliance on top-down proces...