This study is a contrastive analysis between the phonological patterns of standard colloquial Bangla(an Indo-European language widely used in Bangladesh and the eastern part of India) and British English at both segmental and supra-segmental levels. This study will contrast Bangla phonological system with the English one and will attempt to point out possible difficulties that native Bangali le...

Numerous cross-linguistic studies suggest that the adaptation of loanwords proceeds in such a way as to maximize perceptual similarity between input and output (Fleischacker 2000, Kang 2002, Kenstowicz 2003). Other authors have characterized the relationship between input and output sounds in borrowings as being based on phonological closeness rather than perceptual similarity (Paradis' TCRS lo...

This paper examines to what extent acoustic similarity between native and non-native vowels predicts non-native vowel perception and whether this process is influenced by listeners' native and other non-native dialects. Listeners with Northern and Southern British English dialects completed a perceptual assimilation task in which they categorized tokens of 15 Dutch vowels in terms of English vo...

Discriminating between certain non-native contrasts can be difficult. The Perceptual Assimilation Model [1] predicts that when two non-native phones are assimilated to the same native language category, as equally good or poor versions, discrimination should be poor (a single-category assimilation). However, it is not known to what extent visual and/or clearly articulated speech might assist cr...

Vlaev and Chater (2006) demonstrated that the cooperativeness of previously seen prisoner’s dilemma games biases choices and predictions in the current game. These effects were: a) assimilation to the mean cooperativeness of the played games caused by action reinforcement, and b) perceptual contrast with the preceding games depending on the range and the rank order of their cooperativeness. We ...

During speech perception, listeners compensate for phonological rules of their language. For instance, English place assimilation causes green boat to be typically pronounced as greem boat; English listeners, however, perceptually compensate for this rule and retrieve the intended sound (n). Previous research using EEG has focused on rules with clear phonetic underpinnings, showing that percept...