To investigate acoustic feature differences between Japanese nativeand non-native speakers in spoken Japanese, 29 Japanese words were digitally recorded by 10 each of Japanese, French, Korean, Thai, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese speakers. The results revealed that acoustic features in each language have different tendencies in relative duration, intensity, and fundamental frequency. For example, co...

This study aims to compare verb variation and the functions of hedges used in English scientific research articles written by native speakers (NS) non-native from Indonesia (NNS). The data were collected a corpus 30 international journal articles. analysis was conducted quantitatively using normalization system statistical tests determine frequency distribution lexical verbs qualitatively Palme...

This paper investigates the production of Arabic gutturals by native (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) Arabic. A total 40 participants, 20 NSs NNSs were recruited. 240 tokens collected using two major methods: free speech nonsense word testing. Using PRAAT software (version 6.1.01), analyzed acoustically to measure F1 F2 signal (non)significance difference between target groups auditorily ra...

this study was motivated by three factors, which also contribute to its significance for today’s academic writing. first, research articles are the significant means of communication between the writers all over the world. second, persuasion and organization are crucial notions in academic writing where the authors have to consider the academic audiences and their needs.  third, some writers ar...

In this paper, the falling-rising tone in the English of very proficient non-native speakers is discussed. The speech data was collected in connection with MA thesis seminar sessions where the speakers, Finnish university students of English, discussed research methodology. Of the non-native speakers of English, only those who performed at high level of accuracy in a separate proficiency test w...

This paper investigates the unique pharyngeal and uvular consonants of Arabic from the point of view of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Comparisons of the recognition error rates for these phonemes are analyzed in five experiments that involve different combinations of native and non-native Arabic speakers. The most three confusing consonants for every investigated consonant are discussed. ...