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When the Easy Becomes Difficult: Factors Affecting the Acquisition of the English /iː/-/ɪ/ Contrast
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In: Frontiers in Communication ; 6 (2022)
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The degree of similarity between the sounds of a speaker’s first and second language (L1 and L2) is believed to determine the likelihood of accurate perception and production of the L2 sounds. This paper explores the relationship between cross-linguistic similarity and the perception and production of a subset of English vowels, including the highly productive /iː/-/ɪ/ contrast (as in “beat” vs. “bit”), by a group of Spanish/Catalan native speakers learning English as an L2. The learners’ ability to identify, discriminate and produce the English vowels accurately was contrasted with their cross-linguistic perceived similarity judgements. The results showed that L2 perception and production accuracy was not always predicted from patterns of cross-language similarity, particularly regarding the difficulty distinguishing /iː/ and /ɪ/. Possible explanations may involve the way the L2 /iː/ and /ɪ/ categories interact, the effect of non-native acoustic cue reliance, and the roles of orthography and language instruction. ; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
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cross-linguistic similarity; individual variation; L2 perception; L2 production; vowel contrast
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660917 http://hdl.handle.net/10464/15625
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Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific
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A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during reading ...
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Supplementary materials for: A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during reading ...
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Can Homophone Interference Occur in Translation Equivalents of L1 Activated by L2 ...
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Agreement attraction in English and Czech: A direct experimental comparison ...
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The Emotion Probe: On the Universality of Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Gender Speech Emotion Recognition via Machine Learning
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In: Sensors; Volume 22; Issue 7; Pages: 2461 (2022)
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Not…Until across European Languages: A Parallel Corpus Study
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 1; Pages: 56 (2022)
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Should the Elementary School EFL Classroom Contribute to Developing Multilingualism? Pre-Service Teacher Cognitions about Pluralistic Approaches to EFL Teaching and Cross-Linguistic Awareness
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 2; Pages: 109 (2022)
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XORIJIY TILLARNI O’QITISHDA MADANIYATLARARO MULOQOTNI SHAKLLANTIRISH AHAMIYATI ... : THE IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ...
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Stage of life words at the crossroads of language, culture and cognition : A contrastive semantic analysis between boy (English) and ragazzo (Italian)
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A Cross-Linguistic Study of Metaphor Variation in Promotional Discourse of the Tourist Sector in Spanish, English and German: Implications for Translation
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Lexical activation in late bilinguals: effects of phonological neighbourhood on spoken word production
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Phonetic attrition and cross-linguistic influence in L1 speech of late Czech-French bilinguals ; Influence translinguistique et attrition phonétique en L1 chez des bilingues tardifs tchèque-français
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In: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03603032 ; Linguistics. Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II; Univerzita Karlova (Prague), 2021. English. ⟨NNT : 2021TOU20062⟩ (2021)
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Production of Vowel Reduction by Mexican Learners of English as L2 and Russian as L3
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In: ISSN: 0008-4131 ; EISSN: 1710-1115 ; Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03312846 ; Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique, Cambridge University Press, In press (2021)
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The dynamics of morphological processing in developing readers: A cross-linguistic masked priming study
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In: ISSN: 0022-0965 ; EISSN: 1096-0457 ; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology ; https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03190528 ; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Elsevier, 2021, 208, pp.105140. ⟨10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105140⟩ (2021)
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Fostering teacher language awareness in a primary English-language immersion school in France: supporting teachers on the road to engaging students’ bilingual competencies
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In: ISSN: 0965-8416 ; Language Awareness ; https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-03573322 ; In press (2021)
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Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03246691 ; Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), Ubiquity Press, 2021, 6 (1), pp.72. ⟨10.5334/gjgl.1454⟩ (2021)
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