James M. Stratton
List of John Benjamins publications in which James M. Stratton is involved.
Articles
2025 Explicit pronunciation instruction in the second language classroom: An acoustic and impressionistic analysis of German fricatives Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 11:3, pp. 338–362 | Article
The present study investigates the effects of explicit and implicit pronunciation instruction on the production and perceived accentedness of three German fricatives — [ç], [ʃ], [x] — by English-speaking learners of German. Speech samples, collected following a… read more
2023 Explicit pronunciation instruction in the second language classroom: An acoustic analysis of German final devoicing Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:1, pp. 71–102 | Article
The present study uses an acoustic analysis to examine the effects of implicit and explicit pronunciation instruction on the acquisition of German final devoicing in the L2 classroom. Twenty-nine English-speaking L2 learners of German at a North American university were assigned to an implicit… read more
2022 Old English intensifiers: The beginnings of the English intensifier system Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:1, pp. 31–69 | Article
While many studies have employed variationist methods to examine longitudinal changes in the English intensifier system, to date, no variationist studies have tackled the intensifier system of Old English. By providing a critical view of this system at an earlier stage in the history of the… read more


