This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the
methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a …

Purpose This study investigated how listeners' native language affects their weighting of
acoustic cues (such as vowel quality, pitch, duration, and intensity) in the perception of …

This paper presents findings from the analysis of a Russian word corpus and two studies
assessing the effects of stress consistency and stress regularity on performance in naming …

Three perceptual experiments were conducted to investigate the perception of English
lexical stress with a marked nuclear pitch accent by native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin at …

Background A number of recent studies have provided evidence that written forms in the
input to (literate) adult second language (L2) learners can support their ac-quisition of L2 …

Stress 'deafness' refers to the inconsistent perception and/or processing of phonological
stress by speakers of fixed stress languages such as French. This paper briefly reports on …

In vocal music, lyrics have been shown to align with musical structure on various levels,
such as musical meter and melodic progressions: For instance, tonal contours in tone …

Se ha comprobado que el nivel de conocimiento de una lengua y la instrucción en una
segunda lengua (L2) contribuyen a la percepción del acento léxico de una L2. Para …

This thesis studies the perception of French accented English by native English speakers. It
presents the results of a mixed methods study aimed at exploring (1) whether both incorrect …

Two perceptual experiments investigated how the suprasegmental information of
monosyllables is perceived and exploited in spoken English word recognition by listeners of …