Rachel Hayes-Harb
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rachel Hayes-Harb is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2215-1931 | E‑ISSN 2215‑194X
2022 Whose input matters? The influence of socially-differentiated input sources in adult Lx phonetic learning Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:3, pp. 363–388 | Article
Input is a necessary condition for language acquisition. In the language classroom, input may come from a variety of sources, including the teacher and student peers. Here we ask whether adult Lx learners are sensitive to the social roles of teachers and students such that they exhibit a… read more
2019 ESL learners’ intra-speaker variability in producing American English tense and lax vowels Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5:1, pp. 139–164 | Article
Nonnative (L2) English learners are often assumed to exhibit greater speech production variability than native (L1) speakers; however, support for this assumption is primarily limited to secondary observations rather than having been the specific focus of empirical investigations. The present… read more
2015 Beyond rating data: What do listeners believe underlies their accentedness judgments? Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 1:1, pp. 43–64 | Article
The accentedness judgment task is widely used in the study of second language speech, and has proven to elicit remarkably reliable ratings across listeners. Despite this reliability, however, we know little about how listeners arrive at accentedness ratings. In the present study we seek to… read more