The results indicated that phonological/ phonotactic knowledge played an important role in
reconstructive processes, while phonetic knowledge affected the perceptual analysis.
Furthermore, they pointed out a correlation between Short Term Phonological Memory (STPM)
and L2 achievement and claimed that memory performance is generally higher for L1 sounding
input. Similarly, Service (1992) and Masoura and Gathercole (1999) pointed out a correlation
between L2 sounding non-word repetition and L2 vocabulary development (cited in Kovacs and
Racsmany, 2008, p. 598). Therefore, these results show that if any accent of English was shown
to be phonologically closer to Turkish, this would have implications not only for speech
procession (that is listening comprehension), but also for L2 vocabulary development, fluency
etc. Such a study requires an analysis of the phonological aspects of Turkish and GA and RP
accents.