Spanish/Catalan learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) attended a formal
instruction (FI) period combined with explicit pronunciation instruction, which consisted of …

This study compares the effect of two high variability phonetic training (HVPT) methods on
specifically attended sounds and on implicitly exposed but unattended sounds. Several …

This paper assessed two high variability phonetic training methods aimed at improving the
perception and production of English vowels by Spanish/Catalan speakers. Fifty-four L2 …

The present paper compares the linguistic competence of German-Portuguese bilinguals
with upper-intermediate German L2 learners (L2ers) of EP (European Portuguese) and with …

This study investigated the short-and long-term effects of a high variability perceptual
training on the production of three English vowel contrasts (/i/-/ɪ/;/ɛ/-/æ/;/u/-/ʊ/) by …

Previous studies show that attention plays an important role in second language (L2)
phonetic attainment. This study compares the effect of two high variability phonetic training …

Esta Tese de Doutorado apresenta uma discussão, à luz da Teoria dos Sistemas Dinâmicos
Complexos, acerca do papel exercido pelo treinamento perceptual de alta variabilidade …

A growing body of research is exploring second language (L2) learners' listening perception
of vowel contrasts. Conventionally, researchers have estimated how well listeners …

The variety of commercial and open-source software available to carry out behavioural
experiments is considerably large. A few programs (eg E-Prime, DMDX or MATLAB) that …

This study reports the results of a perceptual assimilation task (PAT) used to assess the
degree of perceived cross-language (dis) similarity between the vowel inventories of …