Bruce L. Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bruce L. Smith plays a role.
Articles
2019 ESL learners’ intra-speaker variability in producing American English tense and lax vowels Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5:1, pp. 139–164 | Article
Nonnative (L2) English learners are often assumed to exhibit greater speech production variability than native (L1) speakers; however, support for this assumption is primarily limited to secondary observations rather than having been the specific focus of empirical investigations. The present… read more
2017 Utilizing electropalatography to train palatalized versus unpalatalized consonant productions by native speakers of American English learning Russian Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:1, pp. 9–33 | Article
Previous research has shown that English-speaking learners of Russian, even those with advanced proficiency, often have not acquired the contrast between palatalized and unpalatalized consonants, which is a central feature of the Russian consonant system. The present study examined whether… read more
2007 Phonemic errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All’s well that begins well Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 331–347 | Article
Speech produced by non-native talkers deviates from native talker norms in systematic ways that reflect the interaction between the talker’s native language and the target language. These deviations result in speech that is almost always easily identified by native listeners as “foreign-accented”… read more