Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

Comprehensibility, a major concept in second language (L2) pronunciation research that
denotes listeners' perceptions of how easily they understand L2 speech, is central to …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

This mixed-methods study examines the effects of rating scale length and rater experience
on listeners' judgments of second-language (L2) speech. Twenty experienced and 20 …

In early stages of classroom language learning, many adult second language (L2) learners
communicate primarily with one another, yet we know little about which speech stream …

Gesture is an integral part of language development. While recent evidence shows that
observing a speaker who is simultaneously producing beat gestures helps preschoolers …

This study examined the speech of 30 adult learners of French as a second language (L2) in
a 15‐week listening/speaking course, investigating the relationship between learners' …

The idea that learning music can make a child smarter has gained considerable attention
from parents, educators, and policymakers. Intuitively, learning to play an instrument is …

This chapter brings to the fore key issues and challenges in second language (L2)
pronunciation assessment, drawing on both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic …

Talker variability has been reported to facilitate generalization and retention of speech
learning, but is also shown to place demands on cognitive resources. Our recent study …