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Next we identify and discuss issues in HVPT that are of particular relevance to real-world L2 learning and teaching settings, including the generalizability of learning to new situations, in addition to variations in how HVPT is implemented that may promote optimal learning. Primarily, we focus on the relatively limited research that has explored the use of HVPT as a pedagogical tool. We conclude with recommendations for the future regarding the applicability of HVPT to L2 learning and teaching in the real world.  \nLearning the pronunciation of a new language means learning  \nboth to produce and to recognize new speech sounds. The pro  \ncess by which we recognize speech sounds is called speech perception. A vast literature has documented the particular difficulty that second language (L2) learners experience when learning to perceive new L2 speech sounds, and there has been a great deal of interest in developing interventions to address this challenge. In the classroom, these interventions will typically rely on speech produced by the teacher or a single voice on language-learning recordings to demonstrate pronunciation features. In the domain of speech research, however, a technique called high variability phonetic training (HVPT) has shown great promise in increasing listeners’ ability to perceive nonnative sounds. HVPT uses multiple voices rather than one voice, thus introducing variability into the perception practice. The variability inherent in different voices seems to help L2 learners to perceive new sounds in a more targetlike way.  \nIn this article we review selected HVPT research to understand its relevance to real-world L2 learning and teaching settings. Levis  \nThe CATESOL Journal 30.1 • 2018 • 177  \n(2016) noted that in the field of pronunciation, teaching and research often fail to inform each other despite their potential to do so. He highlights HVPT as an “area of research that has great potential to change the way materials are constructed” (p. 425), arguing that it“has great promise in pronunciation training, even on features that seem particularly resistant to instruction”(p. 426) . Although full understanding of the suitability of HVPT in language pedagogy requires additional research, language teachers and curriculum designers may benefit from taking advantage of what we already know about this robust line of laboratory and pedagogical research.  \nA Brief History of HVPT  \nSpeech researchers have long been interested in the role that phonetic variability—the ways that speech sounds differ depending on a variety of factors, including who is producing them and what phonetic contexts they are in—plays in speech processing and learning. After Liberman, Harris, Hoffman, and Griffith (1957) found that (native) speech sounds are perceived as belonging to mental categories (e.g., native English speakers hear all voiceless bilabial stops as /p/ and all voiced bilabial stops as /b/ rather than on a continuum of “voicelessness” to “voicedness”), many new questions arose. These included: (a) whether this ability is innate or learned (Kuhl, 1979); (b) if it is language-specific or perception-general (Eimas, 1974); (c) what factors contribute to category development (Eimas & Corbit, 1973);(d) how flexible these sound-to-category mappings are (e.g., can the boundary of where /p/ ends and /b/ begins be shifted?) once they have been formed (Verbrugge, Strange, Shankweiler, & Edman, 1976); and (e) what the role of phonetic environment on segment identification is (e.g., are L2 learners able to identify that a sound is part of the /ɑ/ vowel category when it is pronounced in a word such as pop as readily as when it is pronounced by itself as [ɑ]?) (Strange, Verbrugge,","cbCaifhFwl3j6Dd8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifhFwl3j6Dd8","pdf",208215,18,"English","# High Variability Phonetic Training as a Bridge From Research to Practice\n## A Brief History of HVPT","[{\"question\":\"What problem does HVPT address in L2 pronunciation learning?\",\"answer\":\"HVPT targets learners’ difficulty perceiving nonnative speech sounds. It uses multiple voices to introduce variability into perception practice.\"},{\"question\":\"How does HVPT differ from typical classroom pronunciation interventions?\",\"answer\":\"Classroom interventions often rely on a teacher’s voice or a single voice on recordings. HVPT instead uses multiple voices to provide perceptual variability.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is the article concerned with applying HVPT to real-world teaching?\",\"answer\":\"It evaluates issues such as whether learning generalizes to new situations and how implementation variations may support optimal learning.\"}]","High Variability Phonetic Training as a Bridge From Research to Practice | PDF",1792086266,45]