Valerie L. Shafer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valerie L. Shafer is involved.
2025 Production of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 11:2, pp. 174–212 | Article
Previous research revealed that Hindi speakers identify American English (AE) phonemes /v/ and /w/ with only chance accuracy. Building on these findings, this study explored the production of AE /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers, utilizing both acoustic analysis of second formant (F2) onset and AE… read more
2024 Chapter 12. Variation in phonological and morphosyntactic development in multilingual pre-schoolers Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.), pp. 324–345 | Chapter
The present chapter investigates how the quantity of input and the linguistic characteristics of the Heritage Language (HL), Spanish or Russian, impact the comprehension of English Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA) (Study 1) and the production of English vowels (Study 2). In both HLs, SVA exhibits… read more
2021 Perception of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 7:3, pp. 370–407 | Article
This study examined perception of the American English (AE) /v/-/w/ consonant contrast by Hindi speakers of English as a second language (L2). A second aim was to determine whether residence in the US modulated perception of this difficult contrast for proficient bilingual Hindi-English… read more
2008 6. Speech perception in second language learners: The re-education of selective perception Phonology and Second Language Acquisition, Hansen Edwards, Jette G. and Mary L. Zampini (eds.), pp. 153–191 | Article