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Gu, Xiaowei. "An Acoustic Study of the Stop Consonants in Lettered-Words Produced by Chinese Mandarin Speakers." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 11 (2023): 2910–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1311.22.

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This paper presents key findings from an acoustic study on Chinese Mandarin Speakers’ realization of the stop consonants in lettered-words and the stop consonants in Chinese phrases. The research was conducted through voice recording and analysis of data collected from Chinese Mandarin speakers. Recordings of 2000 overall tokens were collected and analyzed using Praat phonetic software. The mean VOT values obtained from both lettered-words and Chinese phrases were compared and statistically tested using the Independent Samples t-test. The research findings show that first, the stop consonants

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Zang, Yunhao. "How Dialects of Chinese Language Influence L1-Speakers Phonological and Phonetic Acquisition of English." Communications in Humanities Research 34, no. 1 (2024): 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/34/20240082.

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There have been many studies concerning Chinese dialects influence on the learning of English sounds. However, it is widely believed that Chinese dialect speakers always face greater difficulties when learning English than Mandarin speakers, which is rebutted through this research, to some degree. The study tests the English repeating ability of speakers native to Wenzhou Wu, a dialect with a significant difference, and native to Tianjin Mandarin, which is very similar to Putonghua. The study compares the phonology of these two dialects and English and assumes that both of these dialects influ

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ORTEGA-LLEBARIA, MARTA, MARITZA NEMOGÁ, and NORA PRESSON. "Long-term experience with a tonal language shapes the perception of intonation in English words: How Chinese–English bilinguals perceive “Rose?” vs. “Rose”." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20, no. 2 (2015): 367–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728915000723.

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Long-term experience with a tonal language shapes pitch perception in specific ways, and consequently Chinese speakers may not process pitch in English words – e.g., “Rose?” spoken as a question versus “Rose” spoken as a statement – in the same way as native speakers of non-tonal languages do. If so, what are those pitch processing differences and how do they affect Chinese recognition of English words? We investigated these questions by administering a primed lexical-decision task in English to proficient Chinese–English bilinguals and two control groups, namely, Spanish–English and native En

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Wu, Yutong. "Difficulties in Production of Voiceless Interdental Fricative // Sound for Chinese Learners of English." Communications in Humanities Research 3, no. 1 (2023): 206–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220251.

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Chinese learners of English have long been known to have significant difficulties with the voiceless fricative // sound in English. This study focuses on the challenges and errors faced by Chinese learners of English while producing the voiceless interdental fricative sound //, and aims to find out the speakers error rate and possible reasons when pronouncing it. In this study, six Chinese adult learners of English were selected as a sample for pronunciation recordings, and the average pronunciation accuracy of // and the accuracy of each individual were calculated. Next, a short interview is

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Wei, Mei. "Linguistic Dimensions of Accentedness, Comprehensibility and Intelligibility: Exploring Listener Effects in American, Moroccan, Turkmen and Chinese Varieties of English." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 44, no. 4 (2021): 520–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2021-0033.

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Abstract The present study examines accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility of American English, Moroccan English, Turkmen English, and Chinese English, from the perspectives of three groups of listeners: native speakers of English and Chinese speakers of English with or without international experiences. Of the 145 listeners, 38 had face-to-face interviews. These listener groups were asked to listen to the recordings of the four English varieties and fill in a cloze test. Results indicated that the three listener groups differed significantly in rating comprehensibility of Americ

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Muntasir, Muntasir, Fadhlur Rahman, Putri Nurul A’la, Khairul Azmy, and Try Mahendra Siregar. "English Pronunciation Among Fataluku Speakers: Consonants and Vowels in Focus." JETLEE : Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature 5, no. 1 (2025): 98–105. https://doi.org/10.47766/jetlee.v5i1.2768.

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This study investigates the challenges faced by native Fataluku speakers in learning English pronunciation and the potential confusion experienced by native English speakers when interacting with Fataluku speakers who are currently learning English. These challenges arise due to phonetic differences between the two languages which can affect the effectiveness of cross-language communication. This study used voice recordings from native Fataluku speakers and analyzed consonant and vowel sounds by applying the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM). This model allows the identification of phonetic

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Guo, Xinyue. "A Corpus-based Study on Speech Errors in Pronouncing the Fricative // by Chinese Learners of English." Communications in Humanities Research 2, no. 1 (2023): 451–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/2/2022544.

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There were quite a few studies investigating English pronunciation errors of Chinese learners of English. However, studies focusing on one typical sound and its detailed features are still inadequate. Besides, limited studies used speech corpora to investigate this topic due to a lack of available speech corpora. To fill such a research gap, this study uses the corpus L2-ARCTIC to investigate the speech errors of voiceless dental fricative // among four Chinese learners of English, and analyzes the possible reasons for the speech errors. Data are collected by analyzing the speech recordings fr

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Ghanem, Romy, Yongzhi Miao, Shima Farhesh, and Emil Ubaldo. "Stereotyped L1 English Speakers: Attitude of US Southerners Toward L2-Accented English." Languages 10, no. 8 (2025): 178. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10080178.

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The present study investigates how US Southerners perceive second language (L2) speech by recruiting 170 undergraduate students who spoke Southern American English to listen to recordings of four speakers (US, Bangladeshi, Chinese, and Saudi Arabian) and evaluate their attributes. The listeners were grouped based on their ethnic affiliation: African American, Anglo-American, and Asian/Hispanic/multi-racial. A random half were primed, being asked questions about whether/how other people had negatively commented on their accents. Results showed no effect of priming on speech ratings. Moreover, w

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Chen, Hanzi. "How Mandarin Influences R in the Accented American English of Chinese Learners." Communications in Humanities Research 10, no. 1 (2023): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/10/20231233.

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The use of English as a global language has led to a growing number of non-native English speakers, including Chinese learners, who speak English with an accent influenced by their first language. This phenomenon can be explained by the mutual exclusivity assumption, which means that our first language will interfere with the second language acquisition. This study examines the role of the English phoneme/r/in the accented English of Chinese learners. The research investigates how Chinese learners perceive, produce, and acquire /r/in English and the challenges they face in mastering this sound

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Tan, Ying-Ying, and Christina Castelli. "Intelligibility and attitudes." English World-Wide 34, no. 2 (2013): 177–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.2.03tan.

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This paper investigates international responses to Singapore English (SgE), in terms of both intelligibility and attitudes toward the speaker, and compares it to responses to American English (AmE). It surveys 200 respondents from over 20 countries as they listen to a set of 15 sound recordings, including read SgE, spontaneous SgE, and read AmE. The results suggest that the intelligibility of SgE and AmE does differ between informants from different regions. However, the intelligibility of the test stimuli does not correlate simply to positive and negative attitudes. While SgE elicits generall

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Lubis, Tasnim, Dwi Widayati, Amalia Amalia, Liesna Andriany, and Mukramah Mukramah. "Sound changes in the Haloban language of the Banyak Islands, Aceh, Indonesia." Studies in English Language and Education 12, no. 2 (2025): 1039–51. https://doi.org/10.24815/siele.v12i2.37945.

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Sound change is a universal phenomenon and is strongly influenced by contextual factors. Variant sounds that appear as cognates across languages can be identified and explained through linguistic analysis within a cultural framework. This study aims to identify sound changes in the Haloban language by comparing them with a related language spoken on Simeulue Island, the Defayan language. A qualitative method was employed in this research. Data were collected through recordings of Halobanese wordlist utterances and interviews with native Halobanese speakers. Six informants participated in the s

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Hajian, Foroozan, and Anikó Vargáné Nagy. "Pro-drop in Farsi: A Case Study of Bilingual Speakers." Különleges Bánásmód - Interdiszciplináris folyóirat 10, no. 3 (2024): 127–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18458/kb.2024.3.127.

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This research is meant to uncover some of the internal grammatical structure of bilingual Farsi speakers who have English as their dominant language. Bilinguals, whose mother tongue is Farsi but whose dominant language is English, are influenced by their dominant language on their mother tongue concerning pro-drop. One of the issues often seen in bilingual speakers of null subject languages is the use of pro-drop in languages such as Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, Slavic languages, and Arabic. This paper will demonstrate how these bilingual speakers incorrectly use the null subjects in their se

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GREEN, DAVID W., JENNY CRINION, and CATHY J. PRICE. "Exploring cross-linguistic vocabulary effects on brain structures using voxel-based morphometry." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10, no. 2 (2007): 189–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728907002933.

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Given that there are neural markers for the acquisition of a non-verbal skill, we review evidence of neural markers for the acquisition of vocabulary. Acquiring vocabulary is critical to learning one's native language and to learning other languages. Acquisition requires the ability to link an object concept (meaning) to sound. Is there a region sensitive to vocabulary knowledge? For monolingual English speakers, increased vocabulary knowledge correlates with increased grey matter density in a region of the parietal cortex that is well-located to mediate an association between meaning and soun

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Khan, Afzal, Wasima Shehzad, and Inayat Ullah. "Articulation of English Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan." International Journal of English Linguistics 7, no. 5 (2017): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v7n5p19.

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This paper aims to examine the articulation of English consonants, vowels and diphthongs by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and explores the problems they face in their English articulation due to the influence of mother tongue. A detailed experiment has been carried out to analyze the articulatory properties of /θ/ /ð/ /ɪ: /, /ɪ/ and /еɪ: / sounds spoken by Pashto speakers in Pakistan. The research reveals that Pashtun speakers of English language have a distinct pronunciation pattern of /θ/ and /ð/ sounds. This research provides a scientific justification to establish Pashto

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Rogers, Catherine L., and Jonathan Dalby. "Forced-Choice Analysis of Segmental Production by Chinese-Accented English Speakers." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 48, no. 2 (2005): 306–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2005/021).

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This study describes the development of a minimal-pairs word list targeting phoneme contrasts that pose difficulty for Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language. The target phoneme inventory was compiled from analysis of phonetic transcriptions of about 800 mono- and polysyllabic English words with examples of all the vowels, diphthongs, and syllable onsets and codas of the language. The Mandarin-specific minimal-pairs list derived from the phonetic transcription analyses contains 190 items. Tape recordings were made of 8 Mandarin speakers reading a randomized version

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Qingbo, Tian, Yap Ngee Thai, Ng Chwee Fang, and Yasir Yahya. "THE PHONOLOGICAL AND PHONETIC STUDY OF EMPHATIC PITCH RANGE BY CHINESE EFL LEARNERS." Journal of Language and Communication 11, no. 2 (2024): 225–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/jlc.11.02.09.

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In producing second language (L2) speech, L2 learners tend to deviate from its norms, resulting in foreign-accented speech. Pitch range plays a crucial role in the perception of foreign-accented speech. This study aims to investigate the production of emphatic pitch range in English by Chinese Learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) from both the phonological and phonetic perspectives. There were seven native English speakers and fourteen Chinese EFL learners participating in this study. They were required to read the second part of eighteen dialogue pairs loudly. Through linguistic me

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Somara, Rakaisa Langit Bengras, and Afief Fakhruddin. "Common Pronunciation Mistakes in Non-native Speakers: A Review." National Conference on Language, Education, and Technology Proceeding 1, no. 1 (2022): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32534/nacolet.v1i1.2680.

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Pronunciation is one of language micro-skill that should be mastered in order to create a clear and effective communication. This article aims to provide a brief review of some common mistakes in pronunciation at various L2 speakers by focusing into researches on related topic. By noticing the problem that occurred, English teachers may develop a better plan for future to avoid the same mistakes. The similarity between non-native learners, such as Chinese, Indonesian, Palestinian, Turkish and Vietnamese, is they tend to make mistakes in sound that do not exist in their first language.

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Zhao, Chutian. "Speech Intelligibility in Noise: The Role of Talker-Listener Accent Similarity and Second Language Experience." Research and Advances in Education 1, no. 5 (2022): 11–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.56397/rae.2022.11.02.

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According to previous research, several factors influence speech intelligibility in noise, including talker accent, listener experience, and language proficiency. The current study looked at how L2 experience, accent familiarity, and English IETLS score affect speech intelligibility. To determine whether and how these factors affect L2 learners’ speech intelligibility when understanding speech in noise, the researcher recruited 30 Mandarin speakers with controlled English proficiency (the researcher set a threshold and only recruited participants who were above it). Half of them graduated from

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Hung, Yu-Chen, Chun-Yi Lin, Li-Chiun Tsai, and Ya-Jung Lee. "Multidimensional Approach to the Development of a Mandarin Chinese–Oriented Sound Test." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 59, no. 2 (2016): 349–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2015_jslhr-h-15-0026.

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Purpose Because the Ling six-sound test is based on American English phonemes, it can yield unreliable results when administered to non-English speakers. In this study, we aimed to improve specifically the diagnostic palette for Mandarin Chinese users by developing an adapted version of the Ling six-sound test. Method To determine the set of testing sounds, we performed an exhaustive acoustic and statistical analysis in which we considered not only the general acoustic properties but also the order of acquisition and the inter- and intraspeaker variability. Results Six phonemes (/u, ə, a, i, t

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Penney, Joshua, Felicity Cox, and Sallyanne Palethorpe. "Variation in pre-nasal raising of TRAP in Australian English." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 154, no. 4_supplement (2023): A334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023716.

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Phonetically raised and fronted realizations of pre-nasal TRAP are increasingly common in Australian English with previous research suggesting that greater raising may be associated with speakers from monolingual English-speaking backgrounds. Here, we present the results of an acoustic examination of pre-nasal TRAP raising (which we refer to as HAND) in a corpus of speech recordings from 183 adolescent speakers (aged 15–18) from five areas of Sydney that differ according to levels of linguistic diversity and the major heritage languages spoken (English-only, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, and Vietna

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Tang, Jinlan, Kan Qian, Na Wang, and Xiaona Hu. "Exploring language learning and corrective feedback in an eTandem project." Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning 1, no. 1 (2021): 110–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jccall-2021-2005.

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Abstract Many studies about eTandem and language learning stem from learners in Western institutions of higher education. Unfortunately, there is a lack of research investigating the telecollaboration regarding language development between learners in the East and the West. Against this backdrop, a small-scale, six-week Chinese-English eTandem project focusing on learners’ language learning processes and experiences was undertaken between nine Chinese university students learning English in China and nine British university students learning Chinese in the UK. Multiple datasets were collected

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Panpan, Yang. "A Pilot Study on Phonological Features and Pronunciation Difficulties of Junior High School Students in China." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 08, no. 05 (2025): 3676–86. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15524829.

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Because English's sound system differs from that of non-native speakers' home languages, learning English phonetics can take time and effort. This study focuses on the challenges junior high school students in China face while studying English phonetics. The study aims to pinpoint the English phonemes these students have trouble pronouncing and the common phonological traits of English that these students share. The research design is exploratory and qualitative, and the sample of 20 students was chosen via convenience sampling. Data collection was placed during regular class hours at two juni

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Dewi, Julia Purnama, Ni Luh Nyoman Seri Malini, and Nissa Puspitaning Adni. "Pronunciation Errors in Producing English Bilabial Consonants Sounds by Korean Speakers." Journal of Language and Literature 25, no. 1 (2025): 85–93. https://doi.org/10.24071/joll.v25i1.10133.

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Every language has a unique system of vowel and consonant sounds, for example, English has five (5) vowels and 21 consonants. Others like in Korean language, it has ten (10) vowels, and nineteen (19) consonants. Since every language has a different set of vowel and consonant systems, it might affect to the differences in the pronunciation of each sounds in each of the languages. Cho (2020) theory states that pronunciation errors result from the transfer of Korean phonological processes to English and the inability to acquire English phonological processes. This study observed three Korean nati

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Gill, Lucy. "Pay Attention: A Labovian Study into the Production of Dental Fricatives by German Speakers of English." Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 1, no. 2 (2022): 9–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8184575.

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This study draws on research in areas of intraspeaker variation, specifically Labov’s work on speech style, and second language acquisition, to examine whether second language (L2) speakers of English follow similar patterns of intraspeaker variation as a function of formality as first language (L1) speakers of English. The participants were five female university students or recent graduates who all shared German as L1 and English as L2. The sociolinguistic interview method was adopted from Labov’s work to elicit speech samples from participants in four different contexts ranging

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Haładewicz-Grzelak, Małgorzata. "Zabrocki’s structural phonetics in the case study of velar POA assimilation in Latinate prefixation in RP English." Lingua Posnaniensis 56, no. 2 (2014): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/linpo-2014-0011.

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Abstract Zabrocki understood structural phonetics as a branch of phonetics concerned with analyzing acodal (substantial) systems (cf. Bańczerowski 1980: 13). In this theory, each sound has a specific acoustic and articulatory substance. Zabrocki constructed linear substantial sound structures based on measuring the amount of substance implied in the articulation. Diachronic structural phonetics, in turn, is the application of synchronically defined phonetic and acoustic relations to the study of language change. This paper investigates a synchronic scenario for velar POA assimilation in Latina

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Shibata, Miki. "L2 English Speakers’ Perception of Their English Accent: An Investigation of European and Asian Attitudes." English Language Teaching 14, no. 12 (2021): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v14n12p126.

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According to previous studies, Japanese learners of English (JLEs) have a negative perception of their own variety of English along with a strong desire to sound native-like. Language attitudes toward L2 (second language) English accents may affect their active participation in English communication situations. The present study is cross-national and investigates whether other L2 English learners from different L1 (first language) backgrounds negatively perceive their own variety of English and English pronunciation as JLEs do. A total of 290 college students in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Mala

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Mufidah, Imroatul, and Eva Nikmatul Rabbianty. "An Analysis of Madurese Dialect in the English Conversation by the Members of Bata-Bata English Centre (BBEC)." PANYONARA: Journal of English Education 3, no. 2 (2021): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.19105/panyonara.v3i2.5085.

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The concept of world Englishes refers to English as a global language that means communication in numerous dialects and the movement towards an international standard for English. Varieties of English are used in various sociolinguistic contexts in different parts of the world, also in Indonesia. Since English plays as a foreign language, sometimes Indonesians still use their dialect. This study was mainly purposed to describe Madurese dialect in the English conversation made by Bata-Bata English Centre (BBEC). Mainly, this research is aimed to (1) Describe the patterns of Madurese dialect in

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Lyon, John, ḱᵂaḱᵂíslaɁqn Justine Manuel, and xᵂəstalqs Kathleen Michel. "The Upper Nicola Nsyilxcn Talking Dictionary Project: Community-Driven Revitalization Lexicography within an Academic Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 44, no. 2 (2023): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dic.2023.a915067.

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ABSTRACT: The Upper Nicola dialect of Nsyilxcn (aka Okaangan Salish) currently has fewer than twelve first-language speakers ( twi -Sharon Lindley, p.c.). This paper describes the Upper Nicola Nsyilxcn Talking Dictionary Project, a community-driven, collaborative project that utilizes heritage language recordings and their associated transcriptions with the goal of developing an online dictionary resource for use by the Upper Nicola Syilx community. The content of the dictionary stems from recently digitized recordings (originally made by Dr. Yvonne Hébert between 1978 and 1980) of elder twi -

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Gilkerson, Jill, Yiwen Zhang, Dongxin Xu, et al. "Evaluating Language Environment Analysis System Performance for Chinese: A Pilot Study in Shanghai." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 58, no. 2 (2015): 445–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2015_jslhr-l-14-0014.

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) automated language-analysis system for the Chinese Shanghai dialect and Mandarin (SDM) languages. Method Volunteer parents of 22 children aged 3–23 months were recruited in Shanghai. Families provided daylong in-home audio recordings using LENA. A native speaker listened to 15 min of randomly selected audio samples per family to label speaker regions and provide Chinese character and SDM word counts for adult speakers. LENA segment labeling and counts were compared with rater-based values.

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Sheng, Yuou. "Contextual effects on the perception of English interdental fricatives / θ / by Mandarin Chinese learners". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 156, № 4_Supplement (2024): A51. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035074.

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Mandarin Chinese lacks interdental fricatives, causing Mandarin Chinese learners to struggle in perceiving these sounds in English. This study explores how word position and vocalic context affect the perception of /θ/ by Mandarin Chinese learners. We test Mandarin Chinese learners and native English speakers using words containing the sound /θ/ in word-initial, medial, and final positions (e.g., think, nothing, bath), and in different vocalic contexts (e.g., think vs. thank). Participants complete a forced-choice identification task, listening to the target words in a carrier sentence and sel

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Beasley, William, and Lih-Ching Chen Wang. "Using an iPhone or iPad for Tonal Activities in Teaching Mandarin Chinese." International Journal of Education 13, no. 2 (2021): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ije.v13i2.18675.

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Tonal variation is a critical component of spoken Mandarin Chinese, but is relatively rare in Western languages such as English. Native speakers of Western languages who seek to learn Mandarin Chinese often find it particularly difficult to hear and reproduce the tonal variations that are required for fluency in the language. Auditory exercises focusing on detecting tonal variation in sound files can help such learners improve their ability to accurately perceive these variations over time. Recent developments in consumer technology, such as inexpensive smartphones and tablets, have provided t

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Chirkova, Katia, James N. Stanford, and Dehe Wang. "A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China)." Language Variation and Change 30, no. 1 (2018): 109–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095439451700028x.

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AbstractLabov's classic study,The Social Stratification of English in New York City(1966), paved the way for generations of researchers to examine sociolinguistic patterns in many different communities (Bell, Sharma, & Britain, 2016). This research paradigm has traditionally tended to focus on Western industrialized communities and large world languages and dialects, leaving many unanswered questions about lesser-studied indigenous minority communities. In this study, we examine whether Labovian models for age, sex, and social stratification (Labov, 1966, 2001; Trudgill, 1972, 1974) may be

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Yang, Cathryn, James N. Stanford, and Zhengyu Yang. "A sociotonetic study of Lalo tone split in progress." Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1, no. 1 (2015): 52–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aplv.1.1.03yan.

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Since Labov’s early work (e.g., 1963, 1966), sociolinguists have frequently examined change in progress on the segmental level, but much less is known about tone change in progress. The present study finds evidence of a tone split in progress in Lalo, a Tibeto-Burman language of China. While many of the world’s tone languages show historical evidence of tone splits, to our knowledge this is the first time that a tone split has been observed while it is occurring, making it possible to closely examine phonological, social, and perceptual factors. In this sociotonetic study of Lalo, 2,938 tone t

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Kuswandaru, Kuswandaru, and Mutaqin Akbar. "Klasifikasi Dialek Bahasa Inggris British dan Amerika menggunakan Support Vector Machine." TIN: Terapan Informatika Nusantara 4, no. 10 (2024): 652–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.47065/tin.v4i10.4965.

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English has become an international language used in various fields, including education, business, and tourism. Indonesia, having become a member of the AEC (Asean Economic Community), makes it increasingly important for Indonesian society, especially the younger generation, to master English proficiently and accurately. English, as an international language, encompasses numerous dialects, such as British and American dialects. This research is motivated by the issue that differences between British and American English dialects can affect understanding and communication in educational, busin

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Amery, Robert. "A matter of interpretation." Language Problems and Language Planning 37, no. 2 (2013): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.37.2.01ame.

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Kaurna, the language indigenous to the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, is being reclaimed from nineteenth-century written historical sources. There are no sound recordings of the language as it was spoken in the nineteenth century, and little has been handed down orally to the present generation. Fortunately, the nineteenth-century records of the language are reasonably good for the time, having been recorded by Christian Teichelmann and Clamor Schürmann, German missionaries who were trained in philology and a range of languages including Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Chinese. The language was

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Benjamin-Ohwodede, Jacinta, Adekunle Mamudu, and Simeon Nyemike Awunor. "The Effectiveness of Hybrid Learning in English Pronunciation Pedagogy in the Nigerian ESL Context." JELITA 5, no. 1 (2024): 81–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.56185/jelita.v5i1.550.

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This paper is a study on the effectiveness of hybrid learning; a blend of traditional and technology-based training, vis-à-vis the second language (L2) learner of English pronunciation. Specifically, our motivation is centred on the functionality of combining the habitual classroom teaching style with the Telegram app (a mobile-based technological tool) for studies relating to speech production and perception. The methodical procedure and design for this study is both quantitative and descriptive; employing the use of a multiple-choice questionnaire in data collection from 401 Nigerian undergr

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Yang, Mei, and Xiaofei Lu. "From Xu to the Development of L2 Interactional Competence: A Conversation Analytic Case Study." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 44, no. 3 (2021): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2021-0018.

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Abstract Dialogues are fundamentally driven by xu (C. Wang, 2016, 2017), a Chinese word meaning continuation that captures the process in which interlocutors participate in interaction through the actions of (utterance) completion, (content) extension, and (topic) creation (CEC). This article reports a conversation analytic case study designed to investigate how the continuation strategies of CEC are used in real-time communication to achieve mutual understanding, and thus to construct intersubjectivity (Verhagen, 2005) and promote the development of second language (L2) interactional competen

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Li, Qian, and Sven Tarp. "Differentiated Treatment of Cultural Items in Lexicographical Products: A Necessary Adaptation to the Digital Environment." Lexikos 32 (2022): 90–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.5788/32-1-1706.

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The paper focuses on the lexicographical treatment of cultural objects. It argues that second-language learning requires second-culture learning and that digital technologies call for new solutions to both old and new challenges. As an example, it takes traditional Chinese musical instruments and starts with a critical analysis of their treatment in five Chinese–English dictionaries for both foreign learners and native speakers. It continues with some reflections on media convergence and its consequences for lexicography and reaches the conclusion that the one-size-fits-all dictionary must be

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Park, Chan-Jae, and Chan-Hoon Haan. "Initial Study on the Reverberation Time Standard for the Korean Middle and High School Classrooms Using Speech Intelligibility Tests." Buildings 11, no. 8 (2021): 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11080354.

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The most important function of the classroom is to transmit educational information from teachers to students more accurately and clearly. The acoustical environment of the classroom thus has an important effect on the improvement of students’ learning ability. To provide an appropriate acoustical environment for learning to students, it is necessary to create an acoustical performance standard for classrooms and a guideline for designing classrooms. However, in Korea, there is not an acoustical standard for classrooms; thus, it is difficult to control and manage appropriate acoustical perform

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Zhang-Wu, Qianqian. "Once a Chinese International Student and Now an English Professor: An Autoethnographic Self-Inquiry of Journeys Against Linguicism and Monolingual Ideologies." Journal of International Students 12, S2 (2022): 32–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v12is2.4354.

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In this autoethnographic critical self-inquiry study, I draw upon my unique identity as once a Chinese international student and now an English professor at a private research university in the United States to investigate how I sought for my multilingual identity and empowered my international students while coping with linguicism and monolingual ideologies. Despite the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in student population, the faculty body in degree-granting postsecondary institutions remains dominated by White, native speakers of English (National Center for Education Statistic

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Liu, Jiang, and Seth Wiener. "CFL learners’ Mandarin syllable-tone word production: effects of task and prior phonological and lexical learning." Chinese as a Second Language Research 10, no. 1 (2021): 31–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/caslar-2021-0002.

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Abstract This study examined beginner-level Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners’ production of newly learned words in an image naming and pinyin-reading task. Fifteen L1-English CFL learners learned 10 tonal monosyllabic minimal pairs (e.g., shu1 and shu3) in a three-day sound-image word learning experiment. Ten of the 20 words were homophonous with previously learned words (e.g., participants already knew that shu1 means ‘book’), while the other 10 were not (e.g., no shu3 words had been learned). Ten of the 20 words had frequent phonology participants were familiar with (e.g., shi is

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Bachimova, Marina S. "The speech genre “gratitude” in the Altai language." International Journal “Speech Genres” 19, no. 4 (44) (2024): 310–17. https://doi.org/10.18500/2311-0740-2024-19-4-44-310-317.

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This article deals with the etiquette speech genre “gratitude” in the Altai language. The article aims to establish and describe categorical universal and nationally specific features of the speech genre “gratitude” in the Altai language. Categorical signs of gratitude are analyzed in line with psychological, social and communicative paradigms. The article describes the national and cultural aspects of the speech genre “gratitude” in various cultures (English, German, Chinese and Russian). The empirical basis of the study was the utterances extracted from recordings of the spoken discourse of

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Nagels, Leanne, Etienne Gaudrain, Deborah Vickers, Marta Matos Lopes, Petra Hendriks, and Deniz Başkent. "Development of vocal emotion recognition in school-age children: The EmoHI test for hearing-impaired populations." PeerJ 8 (April 2, 2020): e8773. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8773.

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Traditionally, emotion recognition research has primarily used pictures and videos, while audio test materials are not always readily available or are not of good quality, which may be particularly important for studies with hearing-impaired listeners. Here we present a vocal emotion recognition test with pseudospeech productions from multiple speakers expressing three core emotions (happy, angry, and sad): the EmoHI test. The high sound quality recordings make the test suitable for use with populations of children and adults with normal or impaired hearing. Here we present normative data for

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Anikin, Andrey, Nikolay Aseyev, and Niklas Erben Johansson. "Do some languages sound more beautiful than others?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 17 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218367120.

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Italian is sexy, German is rough—but how about Páez or Tamil? Are there universal phonesthetic judgments based purely on the sound of a language, or are preferences attributable to language-external factors such as familiarity and cultural stereotypes? We collected 2,125 recordings of 228 languages from 43 language families, including 5 to 11 speakers of each language to control for personal vocal attractiveness, and asked 820 native speakers of English, Chinese, or Semitic languages to indicate how much they liked these languages. We found a strong preference for languages perceived as famili

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Wang, Cuicui, Krystal Flemming, Zhen Yang, et al. "Second Language Immersion Experience Could Help the Brain Response to Second Language Reading for Native Chinese Speakers." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 14, 2022, 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01913.

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Abstract Native language background exerts constraints on the individual's brain automatic response while learning a second language. It remains unclear, however, whether second language immersion experience could help the brain overcome such constraints and meet the requirements of a second language. This study compared native Chinese speakers with English-as-a-second-language immersion experience (immersive English learners), native Chinese speakers without English-as-a-second-language immersion experience (nonimmersive English learners), and native English speakers with an ERP cross-modal M

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Yusuf, Teddy, and Syhabbuddin Syhabbuddin. "BILABIAL FRICATIVE VOICELESS - VOICED SOUND BARRIER FOR SUNDANESSE SPEAKERS: A PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH." Indonesian Journal of Learning and Instruction 7, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.25134/ijli.v7i2.11144.

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There are different educational institutions covering English as a foreign language in the country. In big cities, English is even taught in kindergarten, either because learning English is prestigious or because of school competition. Learning English was not a serious difficulty for some students of foreign languages, like the European states. But in Asia, that's not always the case — especially for those who speak a Polynesian language, and especially for the Sundanese. This is especially true for bilabial consonant sounds, which Sundanese speakers have difficulties pronouncing. These pronu

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Sabbah‐Taylor, Angela, and Christopher J. Jenks. "Okay in intercultural lingua franca interactions between Chinese and British postgraduate students." World Englishes, November 27, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/weng.12715.

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AbstractThe forms and functions of okay have been investigated extensively in contexts where interlocutors speak the same language (e.g., German, Hungarian, and Swedish). Conversely, comparatively few studies have been conducted on how okay is used among people who do not share the same first language, such as lingua franca encounters. This article narrows this gap by investigating the use of okay in face‐to‐face tandem language learning between Chinese Expanding Circle users of English and British Inner Circle users of English. Using applied conversation analysis on a large corpus of 36 h of

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Du, Juan, and Xiaodi Zhou. "Translanguaging practices of Chinese/English bilingual engineers’ communications in the workplace." Applied Linguistics Review, February 24, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2021-0021.

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Abstract Existing literature argues for the urgent need to improve workplace and professional communication in the engineering field across the world. This paper reports on a study examining Chinese/English bilingual engineers’ translanguaging practices in their communications in English-speaking high-tech corporations in the United States. Evidence showed that bilingual engineers translanguaged extensively to construct meaning to meet the diverse communication needs at their workplace, which enables them to demonstrate their professional talents and skills. However, when English was the sole

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León, Michelle, Karla N. Washington, Victoria S. McKenna, Kathryn Crowe, Kristina Fritz, and Suzanne Boyce. "Characterizing Speech Sound Productions in Bilingual Speakers of Jamaican Creole and English: Application of Durational Acoustic Methods." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, December 29, 2022, 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00304.

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Purpose: This study examined the speech acoustic characteristics of Jamaican Creole (JC) and English in bilingual preschoolers and adults using acoustic duration measures. The aims were to determine if, for JC and English, (a) child and adult acoustic duration characteristics differ, (b) differences occur in preschoolers' duration patterns based on the language spoken, and (c) relationships exist between the preschoolers' personal contextual factors (i.e., age, sex, and percentage of language [%language] exposure and use) and acoustic duration. Method: Data for this cross-sectional study were

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Yang, Chunsheng, Han Luo, and Wenhua Jin. "Identification and evaluation of L1 and L2 Chinese accents." Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, March 11, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.24028.yan.

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Abstract This study investigates the identification and evaluation of native language (referred to as L1) and second language (referred to as L2) Chinese accents by Chinese judges. Eleven Chinese speakers, including two Beijing Mandarin speakers, two L1-English L2-Chinese speakers, two L1-Korean L2-Chinese speakers, one L1-Thai L2-Chinese speaker, and five Chinese heritage language (HL) (or American-born Chinese, ABC) speakers, recorded their reading of a passage, The Sun and the North Wind. The first 30 seconds of their recordings were extracted, and then the amplitude normalized. 96 Chinese

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