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View article: The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting Open
Phoneme discrimination is believed to be less accurate in non-native languages compared to native ones. What remains unclear is whether differences in pre-attentive phonological processing emerge between the first foreign language (L2) and…
View article: Corrigendum: Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian
Corrigendum: Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1270743.].
View article: Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian
Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian Open
Introduction Research on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in monolingual and bilingual speakers has shown significant differences in L1 versus L2 phonemic perception. In this study, we examined whether the MMN response is sensitive to the differe…
View article: Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition Open
This study investigates sources of phonological cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at the initial stages of third language (L3) acquisition in light of the predictions of the second language (L2) Status Factor Model, the Typological Primacy …
View article: The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study Open
There is a scarcity of research into the relationship between speech perception and production from a multilingual perspective. The present exploratory study investigates longitudinally the acquisition of rhotic sounds in 24 adolescent lea…
View article: Differences in phonological awareness of young L3 learners: an accent mimicry study
Differences in phonological awareness of young L3 learners: an accent mimicry study Open
This study aims to investigate the nature of phonological awareness in young L3 learners, and the extent to which it changes over time as L2 and L3 learning progresses. Two groups of 12 closely matched multilinguals (total= 24, aged 12–13)…
View article: Cross-Linguistic Interactions in Third Language Acquisition: Evidence from Multi-Feature Analysis of Speech Perception
Cross-Linguistic Interactions in Third Language Acquisition: Evidence from Multi-Feature Analysis of Speech Perception Open
Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in reshaping the previously established ones. Only a few studies…
View article: English vowel perception by Polish advanced learners of English
English vowel perception by Polish advanced learners of English Open
This article examines English vowel perception by advanced Polish learners of English in a formal classroom setting (i.e., they learnt English as a foreign language in school while living in Poland). The stimuli included 11 English noncewo…
View article: The influence of second language vowels on foreign language vowel perception
The influence of second language vowels on foreign language vowel perception Open
This paper examines the limits of feature abstraction and the influence of second language vowels on foreign vowel perception (cf. Pajak and Levy 2014). Perception of Dutch vowels by Polish students of English and French and Dutch was asse…
View article: Perception of Allophonic Cues to English Word Boundaries by Polish Learners: Approximant Devoicing in English
Perception of Allophonic Cues to English Word Boundaries by Polish Learners: Approximant Devoicing in English Open
The study investigates the perception of devoicing of English /w, r, j, l/ after /p, t, k/ as a word-boundary cue by Polish listeners. Polish does not devoice sonorants following voiceless stops in word-initial positions. As a result, Poli…