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English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English InterphonologyEdited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins
[Studies in Bilingualism 31] 2006
► pp. 41–55
The phonological and phonetic development of new vowel contrasts in Spanish learners of English
Paola Escudero | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This paper reports the findings of an experimental study that investigated the perception of Standard Scottish English (SSE) /i/-/I/ by Spanish speakers. Many of the learners of this study adequately identified and discriminated the new contrast, but did so by using vowel duration, an auditory dimension that serves as a secondary cue in native SSE vowel perception. In addition, the individual L2 results patterned in a way that suggested a stage-like development in the phonological and phonetic acquisition of the new contrast. These results demonstrate that L2 learners can learn to perceive new L2 vowels phonologically in a native-like fashion and that, in same cases, they can also learn to adjust to the fine phonetic differences of such new vowels.
Published online: 14 December 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.31.04esc
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.31.04esc
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