The impact of multimodal phonetic training on L2 perception: a study on French learners of Dutch in Belgium

There is growing evidence in the literature for the positive effect of phonetic training on the perception of non-native phonemes. Gains have been most evident in the case of high variability phonetic training (HVPT), which has been shown to enhance lexical encoding (Mora-Plaza et al., 2019). By far the majority of training studies have targeted L2 English, with many focusing on the /r/-/l/ contrast (e.g. Wang & Munro, 2004; Hazan et al., 2005). In this experimental study, we take Sakai and Moorman's (2018: 215) advice to increase the range of languages and target phonemes to heart by trai... Mehr ...