This study is part of a multilingual project investigating native and non-native perception of English consonants. In the present investigation, VCV syllables presented in quiet and in different types of noise were identified by Norwegian listeners. The results showed that even in quiet not all consonants were recognized correctly. Consonant confusions can be interpreted as caused by phonologic...

In the study the native (L1) production of Estonian quantity degrees is compared to the non-native (L2) production by two groups of subjects with different language backgrounds – Finnish (L2-FI) and Russian (L2-RU). Estonian and Finnish are typical examples of quantity languages both exploiting the duration cue contrastively. However, there are significant differences in the quantity systems of...

This study investigates how phonology, morphology, and prosody affect phoneme identification within sentences. The influence of these factors was examined in a phoneme monitoring task with Australian-English and SecondLanguage-English Mandarin-Chinese participants monitoring for /n/ in four morphological contexts (part of a word stem, correct/altered grammatical inflection, or derivational infl...