Rachel Hayes-Harb

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rachel Hayes-Harb plays a role.

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Input is a necessary condition for language acquisition. In the language classroom, input may come from a variety of sources, including the teacher and student peers. Here we ask whether adult Lx learners are sensitive to the social roles of teachers and students such that they exhibit a… read more
Smith, Bruce L., Eric M. Johnson and Rachel Hayes-Harb 2019 ESL learners’ intra-speaker variability in producing American English tense and lax vowelsJournal 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
The accentedness judgment task is widely used in the study of second language speech, and has proven to elicit remarkably reliable ratings across listeners. Despite this reliability, however, we know little about how listeners arrive at accentedness ratings. In the present study we seek to… read more