Foreign Language Acquisition

1.THE EFFECT OF VISUAL TRAINING ON THE PERCEPTION OF NON-NATIVE PHONETIC CONTRASTS[details] [full paper]
Valerie Hazan & Anke Sennema
2.DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF STIMULUS VARIABILITY AND LEARNERS’ PRE-EXISTING PITCH PERCEPTION ABILITY IN LEXICAL TONE LEARNING BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS[details] [full paper]
Jiyeon Lee, Tyler K. Perrachione, Tasha Dees & Patrick C.M. Wong
3.TOOLS DEVOTED TO THE ACQUISITION OF THE PROSODY OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE[details] [full paper]
Guillaume Henry, Anne Bonneau & Vincent Colotte
4.FACTORS ACCOUNTING FOR ATTAINMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE[details] [full paper]
Chris Sheppard, Chiyo Hayashi & Ai Ohmori
5.PERCEPTION OF ACCENT BY L2 STUDENTS OF ENGLISH: SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE VS. OBJECTIVE INTELLIGIBILITY[details] [full paper]
Teresa Lopez-Soto & Dario Barrera-Pardo
6.GLOBAL FOREIGN ACCENT IN NATIVE GERMAN SPEECH[details] [full paper]
Esther de Leeuw, Monika Schmid & Ineke Mennen
7.A REPORT ON OUR SUMMER INTENSIVE PROGRAM IN DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS[details] [full paper]
Yuichi Todaka
8.PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH /iː/-/ɪ/ AND /æ/-/ʌ/ IN A FORMAL SETTING: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF EXPERIENCE AND STARTING AGE[details] [full paper]
Joan C. Mora & Natalia Fullana
9.ENGLISH SOUNDS IN GERMAN: LISTENERS’ CHOICES[details] [full paper]
Julia Abresch
10.SECOND LANGUAGE VOWEL PERCEPTION TRAINING: EFFECTS OF SET SIZE, TRAINING ORDER, AND NATIVE LANGUAGE[details] [full paper]
Kanae Nishi & Diane Kewley-Port
11.AUDITORY TRAINING OF ENGLISH VOWELS FOR FIRST-LANGUAGE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH AND GERMAN[details] [full paper]
Paul Iverson & Bronwen Evans
12.LEARNING L3: WHY LEARNING FRENCH FIRST IS BETTER THAN LEARNING GERMAN FIRST[details] [full paper]
Laura Catharine Smith & Wendy Baker
13.THE PRODUCTION OF NORWEGIAN VOWELS BY FRENCH AND RUSSIAN SPEAKERS[details] [full paper]
Wim A. van Dommelen
14.OLD SOUNDS IN NEW CONTRASTS: L2 PRODUCTION OF THE ENGLISH TENSE-TAX VOWEL DISTINCTION[details] [full paper]
Juli Cebrian
15.CROSS-LANGUAGE PERCEPTUAL ASSIMILATION AND DISCRIMINATION OF SOUTHERN BRITISH ENGLISH VOWELS BY GREEK AND JAPANESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH[details] [full paper]
Angelos Lengeris & Valerie Hazan
16.FROM TONE TO ACCENT: THE TONAL TRANSFER STRATEGY FOR CHINESE L2 LEARNERS[details] [full paper]
Chen Yudong
17.ACOUSTIC REALIZATION OF LEXICAL ACCENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON PHRASE INTONATION IN ENGLISH SPEAKERS' JAPANESE[details] [full paper]
Mariko Kondo
18.THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF INTONATION AND DURATION TO INTELLIGIBILITY IN NORWEGIAN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE[details] [full paper]
Snefrid Holm
19.PHONETICS EAR-TRAINING - DESIGN AND DURATION[details] [full paper]
Patricia D S Ashby
20.PROPER NAMES: FEATURES OF AMBIGUITY IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT[details] [full paper]
Marie Dohalska, Radka Skardova & Jana Kralova
21.EFFECTS OF PHONETIC SPEECH TRAINING ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF VOWELS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE[details] [full paper]
Vesna Mildner & Diana Tomic
22.LONG-TERM PHONOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF CHILDHOOD L2 EXPERIENCE IN A JAPANESE IMMERSION PROGRAM[details] [full paper]
Tetsuo Harada
23.SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS OF ENGLISH FRICATIVES FOR JAPANESE LEARNERS[details] [full paper]
Won Tokuma
24.AN AUTOMATIC PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION MARKER AS A PHONETICS TEACHING TOOL[details] [full paper]
Laurence Paris-Delrue & Jean-Claude Desruque
25.LINGUISTIC FACTORS IN L2 WORD STRESS ACQUISITION: A COMPARISON OF CHINESE AND VIETNAMESE EFL LEARNERS’ DEVELOPMENT[details] [full paper]
Shu-chen Ou
26.PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH LEXICAL STRESS: EFFECT OF F0 PEAK LOCATION ON ENGLISH AND JAPANESE SPEAKERS[details] [full paper]
Shinichi Tokuma
27.JAPANESE LEARNERS’ ENGLISH INTONATION: DISCREPANCY BETWEEN INTONATION INTENDED AND INTONATION PERFORMED[details] [full paper]
Masaki Taniguchi & Yusuke Shibata
28.SWEDISH ACCENT – DURATION OF POST-VOCALIC CONSONANTS IN NATIVE SWEDES SPEAKING ENGLISH AND GERMAN[details] [full paper]
Bo Thorén
29.EFFECTS OF PHONETIC SIMILARITY AND L2 EXPERIENCE: PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH /s-sh/ BY ADULT KOREAN ESL LEARNERS[details] [full paper]
Sang Yee Cheon
30.COMPARISON OF PITCH RANGE IN FINNISH (L1) AND RUSSIAN (L2)[details] [full paper]
Riikka Ullakonoja
31.ORIENTING ATTENTION WHILE TRAINING HINDI SEGMENTS[details] [full paper]
Susan G. Guion & Eric Pederson
32.PERCEPTION OF CZECH VOWEL QUANTITY BY ENGLISH LEARNERS OF CZECH[details] [full paper]
Václav Jonáš Podlipský
33.A DISTANCE E-LEARNING COURSE IN PHONETICS[details] [full paper]
Michael Ashby, Jill House, Mark Huckvale, John Maidment & Kayoko Yanagisawa
34.PERCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT OF RUSSIAN-ACCENTED ESTONIAN[details] [full paper]
Lya Meister & Einar Meister
35.THE EFFECTS OF PHONETIC DISTANCE, LEARNING CONTEXT AND LEARNER PROFICIENCY ON L2 PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH LIQUIDS[details] [full paper]
Sally Chen & Janice Fon
36.EFFECTS OF LENGTH OF RESIDENCE AND SPEECH ACTIVITIES ON DEGREE OF FOREIGN ACCENT[details] [full paper]
Xinchun Wang & Jianhong Chen
37.QUANTIFYING THE INTERLANGUAGE SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY BENEFIT[details] [full paper]
Hongyan Wang & Vincent J. van Heuven
38.TEMPO-NORMALIZED MEASUREMENT AND TEST SET DEPENDENCY IN OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF ENGLISH LEARNERS' TIMING CHARACTERISTICS[details] [full paper]
Shizuka Nakamura, Hajime Tsubaki, Yusuke Kondo, Michiko Nakano & Yoshinori Sagisaka
39.INTRODUCING A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ASSESSING PRONUNICIATION TALENT[details] [full paper]
Matthias Jilka, Henrike Baumotte, Natalie Lewandowski, Susanne Reiterer & Giuseppina Rota
40.AN ACOUSTIC STUDY OF FIRST- AND SECOND-GENERATION GUJARATI IMMIGRANTS IN WEMBLEY: EVIDENCE FOR ACCENT CONVERGENCE?[details] [full paper]
Bronwen Evans, Ajay Mistry & Caroline Moreiras
41.FROM RUSSIAN TO POLISH: POSITIVE TRANSFER IN THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION[details] [full paper]
Grit Mehlhorn