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Publikováno v:
Language and Speech. 61:547-564
We present an artificial lexicon study designed to test the hypothesis that native English speakers experience interference from written input when acquiring surface voicing in German words. Native English speakers were exposed to German-like words (
Publikováno v:
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation. 3:9-33
Previous research has shown that English-speaking learners of Russian, even those with advanced proficiency, often have not acquired the contrast between palatalized and unpalatalized consonants, which is a central feature of the Russian consonant sy
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Journal of Phonetics. 54:98-108
One fundamental aspect of the Russian phonological system is a contrast between palatalized and unpalatalized consonants. This distinction poses a challenge for native English speakers learning Russian as a second language because palatalization is n
Native English speakers learning German as a second language: Devoicing of final voiced stop targets
Autor:
Elizabeth A. Peterson, Bruce L. Smith
Publikováno v:
Journal of Phonetics. 40:129-140
In contrast to German and other languages that devoice underlying word-final, voiced obstruent targets, English maintains a surface contrast between voiced and voiceless obstruents. The present study investigated the issue of what occurs when native
Autor:
Bruce L. Smith, Rachel Hayes-Harb
Publikováno v:
Journal of Phonetics. 39:115-120
In two previous papers published in Journal of Phonetics, we presented findings concerning perception and production of devoicing by native speakers of Mandarin (Hayes-Harb, Smith, Bent, & Bradlow, 2008) and native speakers of German (Smith, Hayes-Ha
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Journal of Phonetics. 37:257-275
German manifests a phonological pattern of word-final consonant devoicing, with an underlying voicing contrast that is largely ‘‘neutralized’’ in speech, whereas English has a surface voicing contrast in final position. This raises questions
Publikováno v:
Journal of Phonetics. 36:664-679
This study investigated the intelligibility of native and Mandarin-accented English speech for native English and native Mandarin listeners. The word-final voicing contrast was considered (as in minimal pairs such as `cub' and `cup') in a forced-choi
Autor:
Bruce L. Smith
Publikováno v:
Applied Psycholinguistics. 27:584-587
Using nonword repetition tasks as an experimental approach with both adults and children has become quite common in the past 10 to 15 years for studying lexical learning and phonological processing (e.g., Bailey & Hahn, 2001; Gathercole, Frankish, Pi
Autor:
Bruce R. Smith
Publikováno v:
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 120:9-15
BRUCE R. SMITH, a member of the Edi torial Board that commissioned this special topic in 2002, is College Pro fessor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's En gland (U of Chicago P, 1
Autor:
Bruce L. Smith
Publikováno v:
Phonetica. 59:232-244
Individual subjects have been found to show considerable variation in the extent to which they manifest certain temporal patterns of English in their speech. Because at least some differences across speakers appear to be related to the fact that some