Erika S. Levy

List of John Benjamins publications in which Erika S. Levy is involved.

Articles

Grover, Vikas, Valerie L. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, Douglas H. sWhalen, Stephanie Kakadelis and Erika S. Levy 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

Grover, Vikas, Valerie L. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, Douglas H. sWhalen and Erika S. Levy 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