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Publication details [#65538]

Froud, Karen and Paula B. García. 2018. Perception of American English vowels by sequential Spanish–English bilinguals. Bilingualism 21 (1) : 80–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | cognition | listening | perception1 | vowel

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study employed Event-Related Potentials, Mismatch Negativity and P300, to list bias of American-English (AE) vowels /ɑ/-/ʌ/ by sequential adult Spanish-English bilingual (SEB) listeners compared to AE monolinguals. SEBs levy attentional and cognitive resources empowering native-like use of spectral and durational cues to discern between /ɑ/ and /ʌ/.