To speak intelligibly is a goal in speaking to be understood oral communication with second language. Mistakes even simple sounds may deter the correct flow of meanings listeners. Thus, this study determined most critical vowel and consonant contrastive among Grade 7 learners Bontoc, Mountain Province. A Phonetic Diagnostic Test (PDT) was administered learners, then tests were checked, tabulate...

This research is titled ((Classification of sounds in terms their effects Kurdish language)), The scope the includes Central (Sorani) Dialect. Therefore, examples presented here are relevant to this dialect and they analysed according Synchronic-Analytic method. generally demonstrates that language has on each other, but rate effect other different from one another, because appropriate inapprop...

1 AN OPTIMALITY THEORETIC APPROACH TO CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 2 One goal of linguistics is to develop models for how children acquire language. Boersma, Escudero, and Hayes (2003) provide a model using an Optimality Theoretic (OT) approach to show how children might learn to group language specific F1 frequencies into phonetic categories. The model utilizes initially high-ranked discriminato...

Although there has been considerable research on the interplay between intelligence and second language (L2) learning, focusing L2 speech perception link is limited. The present study aims to fill this gap. native of participants was Cypriot Greek they spoke English as an L2. completed a forced-choice psychoacoustic test in which discriminated sound contrasts nonverbal measured their capacities...

The present investigation explored the relation between the amount of language input and neural responses in English monolingual (N=18) and Spanish-English bilingual (N=19) infants. We examined the mismatch negativity (MMN); both the positive mismatch response (pMMR) and the negative mismatch response (nMMR), and identify a relationship between amount of language input and brain measures of spe...