Comprehensibility, or ease of understanding, has emerged as an important construct in second language (L2) speech research. Many studies have ...

Models of L2 pronunciation learning hypothesize that accurate speech perception promotes accurate speech production. This claim can be evaluated longitudinally ...

This study examined longitudinal changes in second language (L2) interlocutors’ mutual comprehensibility ratings (perceived ease of understanding speech), targeting comprehensibility ...

This study investigated relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in the speech of L2 learners of Spanish who completed a ...

Researchers have increasingly turned to Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) to crowdsource speech data, predominantly in English. Although AMT and similar ...

This study took a dynamic approach to second language (L2) comprehensibility, examining how listeners construct comprehensibility profiles for L2 Spanish ...

This study explored teachers’ beliefs about pronunciation instruction in Spanish as a second language (L2). An online survey was used ...

Most studies on the perception-production link have assumed a synchronous relationship, according to which gains in perception transfer to production ...

This study examined relationships between language learning motivation and the longitudinal development of second language (L2) pronunciation. Twenty-six English-speaking learners ...

Recent longitudinal approaches to second language (L2) pronunciation development have prioritized developmental trajectories, highlighting individual variation in phonetic learning over ...

In Spanish, voiced stops weaken to approximants and display variables degrees of lenition according to the context in which the ...

Despite intuitive and theoretically motivated claims that Study Abroad (SA) is an optimal environment for language development, including pronunciation gains, ...

When we are born our perceptual systems are capable of discriminating sounds that occur in English, Spanish, Hindi, or any ...

As Derwing (2010) observed nearly ten years ago, one of the goals of pronunciation research is to identify how different ...

Mixed-effects modeling is a multidimensional statistical analysis capable of modeling complex relationships between predictor and outcome variables while accounting for ...

This paper discusses changes in the field of L2 pronunciation over the past decade, including research studies, resources, and changes ...

Significant scholarship has focused on the development of L2 oral skills in naturalistic language learning. However, few studies have examined ...

Research on the acquisition of second language (L2) phonology has identified a range of factorsrelated to pronunciation accuracy: language immersion ...

Longitudinal research on second language (L2) sound learning demonstrates that speakers’ production of challenging L2 sounds can improve in the ...