Language experience systematically constrains perception of speech contrasts that deviate phonologically and/or phonetically from those of the listener’s native language. These effects are most dramatic in adults, but begin to emerge in infancy and undergo further development through at least early childhood. The central question addressed here is: How do nonnative speech perception findings be...

background: as english has increasingly become the lingua franca in science and international journals require native- like academic writing standards from nonnative researchers, there is more pressure on nonnative scholars to write their research articles more accurately and appropriately in english.this study was conducted to determine the most-occurring language-related errors which iranian ...

The role of phonological neighborhood density in lexical access was examined during nativeand nonnative language production. German-English and English-German bilinguals named pictures of German words with highand low-density neighborhoods. Results revealed that accuracy of picture naming was influenced by phonological neighborhood, with high-density neighborhoods facilitating lexical access in...

As a consequence of increasing demand for learning foreign language, the population language teachers has increased. English is most preferred all over world, have become subject examination. Given fact majority around world are nonnative speakers, their proficiency crucial. This study aimed at providing baseline data on self-assessment Turkish regarding current in four skills. Data were collec...

the present study is an investigation into the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. to this end, six female english teachers and 81 male and female advanced english learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. data were collected through torrance test of creative thinking (ttct) and stude...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is currently one of the main research interests in computer science. Hence, many ASR systems are available in the market. Yet, the performance of speech and language recognition systems is poor on nonnative speech. The challenge for nonnative speech recognition is to maximize the accuracy of a speech recognition system when only a small amount of nonnative dat...

This study evaluated how hearing-impaired listeners perceive native (Swedish) and nonnative (English) speech in the presence of noise- and speech maskers. Speech reception thresholds were measured for four different masker types for each target language. The maskers consisted of stationary and fluctuating noise and two-talker babble in Swedish and English. Twenty-three hearing-impaired native S...

The mechanisms underlying the acquisition of speech-production ability in human infancy are not well understood. We tracked 4-12-mo-old English-learning infants' and adults' eye gaze while they watched and listened to a female reciting a monologue either in their native (English) or nonnative (Spanish) language. We found that infants shifted their attention from the eyes to the mouth between 4 ...