Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity

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• dc.contributor.author Llompart, Miquel
• dc.contributor.author Gorba, Celia
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-18T16:51:29Z
• dc.date.available 2025-11-18T16:51:29Z
• dc.date.issued 2025
• dc.date.updated 2025-11-18T16:51:29Z
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 12-09-2025
• dc.description.abstract This study revisits the relationship between second-language (L2) learners¿ability to distinguish sounds in non-native phonological contrasts and to recognize spoken words when recognition depends on these sounds, while addressing the role of methodological similarity. Bilingual Catalan/Spanish learners of English were tested on the identification of two vowel contrasts (VI) of diverging difficulty, /i/-// (difficult) and //-/æ/ (easy), in monosyllabic minimal pairs, and on their recognition of the same pairs in a word-picture matching task (WPM). Learners performed substantially better with /i/-// in VI than in WPM, and individual scores were only weakly correlated. By replicating previous findings through a more symmetrical design, we show that an account of prior work rooted in methodological dissimilarity is improbable and provide additional support for the claim that accuracy in sound identification does not guarantee improvements in word recognition. This has implications for our understanding of L2-speech acquisition and L2 pronunciation training.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 SGR 00922) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-123823NB-I00). The first author¿s contribution was additionally supported by the Spanish Ministry of Universities (Beatriz Galindo Junior Research Fellowship, BG22/00161), as was the second author¿s (Margarita Salas Fellowship, ID-706211). We would also like to thank the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions.
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• dc.identifier.citation Llompart M, Gorba C, Prieto P. Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity. Stud Second Lang Acquis. 2025. DOI: 10.1017/S0272263125101113
• dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263125101113
• dc.identifier.issn 0272-2631
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71928
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 2025
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-123823NB-I00
• dc.rights ©The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.keyword L2 phonology
• dc.subject.keyword Second language learning
• dc.subject.keyword Sound identification
• dc.subject.keyword Speech perception
• dc.subject.keyword Spoken word recognition
• dc.title Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity
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