One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the
perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 …

Voice-activated artificially intelligent (voice-AI) assistants, such as Alexa, are remarkably
effective at processing spoken commands by native speakers. What happens when the …

Languages vary in the complexity of their phonemic inventories. Potentially, vowels can
possess contrastive features in respect of relative duration, quality, tone and nasality …

The cause (s) of missing inflectional morphology in obligatory contexts by adult speakers of
second language (L2) English is subject to ongoing discussion. Whatever the specific …

Research attempting to understand the intermediate stages of first-language acquisition and
disordered speech has led to the discovery of covert contrast. A covert contrast is a …

Abstract Based on the'Universal Markedness' theory, the study investigated the phonological
processes, simplification, and substitution in Urdu speaking children. The data were …

This study examined how Korean EFL learners in different proficiency levels attest contrasts
of L2 phonology. To this end, twenty Korean EFL learners in high and low levels of English …

Young children are more likely to omit unstressed function words when they do not form a
disyllabic foot with the previous word eg, Tom [pushes] Foot the dog than when they form a …