Identifying Plosives in L2 English

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Chapter One: Introduction
• Introduction
• 1. Factors affecting the identification of plosives
• 2. Types of errors, second language phonology and speech perception
• 2.1 Types of errors
• 2.2 Second language phonology and speech perception
• 3. Purpose of the study
• 4. Research questions
• 5. Significance of the study
• 6. Definitions of key terms
• 7. Assumptions, delimitations and limitations
• 8. Organisation of the study
• Summary
• Chapter Two: Review of the literature
• Introduction
• 1. Second language phonology
• 1.1 Investigating second language phonology
• 1.2 The acquisition of phonology
• 1.3 Linguistic constraints
• 1.3.1 Linguistic universals
• 1.3.2 Developmental processes
• 1.3.3 L1 transfer
• 1.3.4 Markedness
• 1.3.5 Sensitivity to phonological and morphological environments
• 1.3.6 Critical period hypothesis
• 1.4 The ontogeny model
• 1.4.1 Studies on the ontogeny model
• 1.4.2 The ontogeny phylogeny model
• 1.5 Causes of second language phonology fossilisation
• 2. Speech perception
• 2.1 Investigating speech perception
• 2.2 Observations shaping theoretical thinking
• 2.2.1 Categorical perception
• 2.2.2 Phonetic context
• 2.2.3 Visual context
• 2.2.4 Lexical and sentential context
• 2.3 Theories of speech perception: phonemic categorisation
• 2.3.1 Motor theory
• 2.3.2 Direct realist theory
• 2.3.3 General approach
• 2.4 Theories of speech perception: phonemic categorisation and lexical knowledge
• 2.4.1 Top-down theories
• 2.4.2 Bottom-up theories
• 2.5 L2 speech perception
• 3. The Cypriot Greek (CG) variety
• 3.1 Cypriot Greek (CG)
• 3.2 The phonological systems of CG and English in comparison
• 4. Plosive consonants
• 4.1 The plosive system of CG and English
• 4.1.1 Voicing contrast
• 4.1.2 Place of articulation
• 4.1.3 Adjacent phoneme
• 4.1.4 Lexical context
• 4.1.5 Sentential context
• Summary: second language phonology and speech perception approaches
• Chapter Three: Research methodology
• Introduction
• 1. Research questions and hypotheses
• 2. Research design
• 2.1 Identification tasks
• 3. Materials
• 3.1 Stimuli
• 3.1.1 Word identification task
• 3.1.2 Words-in-sentences identification task
• 3.1.3 Questionnaire
• 4. Participants
• 5. Procedure
• 6. Data analysis strategy
• 6.1 Coding of responses
• 6.2 Cleaning and screening data
• 6.3 Selecting a data analysis strategy
• 6.4 Reliability and validity
• 7. Ethical considerations
• Summary
• Chapter Four: Results
• Introduction
• 1. Demographics and students’ background data
• 1.1 Participant exclusion criteria and English proficiency level
• 1.1.1 2009 and 2010 participants
• 1.1.2 2011 participants
• 2. Quantitative results for research question 1
• 2.1 Word identification task
• Summary for the word identification task
• 2.1.1 Rank order of the factors affecting plosive consonants identification
• 2.2 Words-in-sentences identification task
• Summary for the words-in-sentences Identification task
• Summary for the word identification and Words-in-sentences identification tasks
• 3. Quantitative results for research question 2
• 3.1 Quantitative findings: types of errors in the Words-in-sentences identification task
• Summary
• Chapter Five: Discussion
• Introduction
• 1. Performance on the identification tasks 1 and 2 (factors identification)
• 1.1 Interpretation of the results
• 1.2 Relation to previous research findings
• 1.3 Theoretical implications
• 2. Performance on the words-in-sentences identification task (types of errors)
• 2.1 Interpretation of the results
• 2.2 Relation to previous research findings
• 2.3 Theoretical implications
• 3. CG users’ difficulties with L2 plosives: the result of second language phonology or speech perception approach
• Summary
• Chapter Six: Conclusion
• Introduction
• 1. Overall conclusion
• 2. Pedagogical implications
• 3. Future directions
• Summary
• References
• Appendices
• Appendix A: CG difficulties with L2 plosives
• Appendix B: Word identification task – Version 1
• Appendix C: Word identification task – Version 2
• Appendix D: Words-in-sentences identification task
• Appendix E: Background questionnaire
• Appendix F: SPSS qutput of quantitative analysis
• Appendix G: Descriptive statistics for the words-in-sentences identification task concerning performance of participants in terms of the four investigated factors in descending order (better performance in voiceless plosives)
• Index
• Series index