Sentence examples for English listener from inspiring English sources

It is an alienating process – certain locutions and words that you'd always spoken naturally suddenly involve a sense of performance, a self-consciousness, and either you choose to use them, and become "characterful" to the English listener, like one of Shakespeare's comic turns, or you trim your spoken language accordingly and revert to your first speech only with family and school friends.

For this very reason it probably fails to take hold at once of a good many normal English listeners.

I think its snapshot of Australia (not idealised, but certainly distilled and concentrated) had a particular appeal for both expatriate Australians and English listeners, perhaps helping to explain why it made No 26 on the British charts, but only No 64 in Australia.

Applying the PAM to English listeners' L2 lexical tone perception is complicated.

Thirty-six native-speaking Australian English listeners were recruited from the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

All of the non-Thai participants were naïve to the Thai language, and the English listeners were also naïve to any other lexical tone languages.

Contrasts of each accent versus the silent baseline showed the classic pattern of bilateral auditory activation in both the Scottish and English listeners.

English performance was analogous to that of the Japanese listeners in So and Best (2010), but their results provide more specific insight into the categorization and discrimination relationship; English listeners (So & Best, 2014) showed large discrepancies among the UC pairs, with one UC pair being associated with much better discrimination than the TC pairs.

This CG pattern is the case with the Zulu voiceless versus ejective velar stops, [kh]–[k'], which are perceived by English listeners as being a good versus a noticeably deviant English /k/ ([kh]) (Best et al., 2001); the greater the difference in category goodness, the better the predicted discrimination performance.

For example, in the case of Zulu click consonant contrasts, English listeners cannot assimilate either phone into their native phoneme space; they report that the sounds do not sound like speech, but instead like nonspeech events such as a twig snapping or a cork popping, and they discriminate them quite well (Best, Levitt, & McRoberts, 1991).

In the single-category (SC) pattern, two nonnative phones are assimilated into the same native category, with poor discrimination being predicted (Best, 1995) and observed, as for the Zulu plosive versus implosive [b]–, both of which English listeners assimilate to their native /b/ (Best et al., 2001).