Ferenc Bunta

TL;DR: This paper examined the extent to which native-English-speaking and ESL listeners performed better on a test when the speaker shared their native language and found that both native and non-native listeners scored significantly lower on listening comprehension tests when they listened to nonnative speakers of English, native speakers of Spanish scored significantly higher when listening to Spanish-accented speech, and native speakers in Chinese scored significantly worse when listening with speakers who shared their own native language.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English and found that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) listeners and native-English-speaking listeners.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of phonological awareness in various languages may differ by features of the languages as well as the features of speakers of the speakers, and a meta-analysis catalogs these relations and examines factors that may have influenced how closely related these measures are between English and other languages.

TL;DR: Bilingual children show distinct speech rhythm patterns for their target languages but with some early equal timing bias that diminishes over time, on the basis of the vocalic measurements, which is more robust than the intervocalic PVI.

TL;DR: This article examined the phonological skills of bilingual children, taking language use and proficiency into consideration, and compared their skills to monolingual peers, finding that bilingual children did not differ from their non-bilingual peers on any of the Spanish measures, except on accuracy for stochastic segmental segmentation.