TY  - INPR
PB  - Cambridge University Press
Y1  - 2022/04/11/
A1  - Saito, Kazuya
A1  - Cui, Haining
A1  - Suzukida, Yui
A1  - Diego, Dardon
A1  - Suzuki, Yuichi
A1  - Jeong, Hyeonjeong
A1  - Revesz, Andrea
A1  - Sugiura, Motoaki
A1  - Tierney, Adam
N2  - Extending the paradigm in L1 acquisition, scholars have begun to investigate whether
participants? domain-general ability to represent, encode, and integrate spectral and temporal
dimensions of sounds (i.e., auditory processing) could be a potential determinant of the
outcomes of post-pubertal L2 speech learning. The current study set out to test the hypothesis
that auditory processing makes a unique contribution to L2 speech acquisition for 70
Japanese classroom learners of English with different levels of L2 proficiency when
biographical backgrounds (length of instruction and immersion) and memory abilities
(working, declarative, and procedural memory) are controlled for. Auditory processing
loaded onto modality-general capacities to represent and incorporate anchor stimuli (relative
to target stimuli) into long-term memory in an implicit fashion, but dissociated from explicit
abilities to remember, associate, and elaborate sensory information. Auditory processing
explained a small-to-medium amount of variance in L2 speech learning, even after the other
potentially confounding variables were statistically factored out.
JF  - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10146679
N1  - Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. This is an Open
Access article, distributed under the terms of
the Creative Commons Attribution licence
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),
which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original work is properly cited.
KW  - auditory processing
KW  -  second language acquisition
KW  -  speech
KW  -  memory
KW  -  executive functions
TI  - Does Domain-General Auditory Processing Uniquely Explain the Outcomes of Second Language Speech Acquisition, Even Once Cognitive and Demographic Variables are Accounted For?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000153
ER  -