The study presented here examines how adult L2 listeners' L1 phonotactics interferes with
L2 vowel perception in different consonantal contexts. We examined Mandarin listeners' …

The present study provides a formal account for three types of experimental findings
recurrently reported in the literature, yet not integrated into current L2 speech theories …

Perceptual epenthesis is the perception of illusory vowels in consonantal sequences that
violate native phonotactics. The consensus has been that each language has a single …

Speech perception is influenced by language-specific phonological knowledge. While
phonotactics has long been established to play a role, the study of how phonological …

This article provides a review of previous studies that have examined the effects of
orthography on establishing contrastive phonological representations in second language …

Nonnative or second language (L2) perception of segmental sequences is often
characterised by perceptual modification processes, which may “repair” a nonnative …

Past work investigating the lingual articulation of devoiced vowels in Tokyo Japanese has
revealed optional but categorical deletion. Some devoiced vowels retained a full lingual …

In Korean, voiced oral stops can occur intervocalically as allophones of their voiceless lenis
counterparts; they can also occur initially as variants of nasal stops as a result of initial …

Illusory epenthesis is a phenomenon in which listeners report hearing a vowel between a
phonotactically illegal consonant cluster, even in the complete absence of vocalic cues. The …

Research addressing second language (L2) speech is expanding. Studies increasingly
demonstrate that a learner's first language (L1) filters the L2 input, resulting in learners …