Why do some English vowels stay hard even after years of study? A Taiwan-led study finds the perception-production link isn’t one connection, it’s several, each tied to a different sound cue and shaped by native-language habits. #Linguistics #SecondLanguageAcquisition #Phonetics
When Your Ear Betrays Your Mouth: What Mandarin Speakers’ English Vowels Reveal About the Wiring Between Hearing and SpeechA phonetic imitation study finds that the link between how we hear a sound and how we produce it is not one connection but several, each tied to a different acoustic cuewww.anthropology.net