Lori L. Holt

Jan 10, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Seth Wiener |Carnegie Mellon |Timothy Murphy |Lori L. Holt

Introduction An adult second language (L2) learner faces at least two problems related to L2 speech perception. First, the learner must adapt a perceptual system attuned to first language (L1) input (Cutler, 2012). Second, a learner must receive enough L2 input to make meaningful new sound-to-meaning associations (Colantoni et al., 2015). To overcome these problems, researchers and instructors have traditionally drawn the learner's attention towards novel L2 speech sounds.