First-language influence on second language speech perception depends on task demands.
While listening to non-native speech, second language users filter the auditory input through their native language. We examined how bilinguals perceived second language (L2 English) sound sequences that conflicted with native-language (L1 Spanish) constraints across three experiments with different...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 28 - 52 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2022
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