TY - GEN
T1 - Perception of Brazilian Portuguese vowels by Australian English and Spanish listeners
AU - Elvin, Jaydene
AU - Escudero, Paola
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - ![CDATA[Many studies on non‐native speech and second language (L2) perception suggest that a second language learner hears with a foreign accent when listening to or perceiving the sounds of the new language (for a review see Strange, 1995, 2007; Escudero, 2005). It is well‐established that the learners’ native or first language influences how they hear and categorise L2 sounds (e.g., Flege, 1995; Flege, Bohn & Jang, 1997; Escudero, 2005; Best & Tyler, 2007). The present study examined group differences in the discrimination of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels by Australian English monolinguals and Spanish listeners who learned English as their L2. It also investigated whether vowel inventory and vowel acoustic properties are equally good predictors of crosslanguage perception difficulty.]]
AB - ![CDATA[Many studies on non‐native speech and second language (L2) perception suggest that a second language learner hears with a foreign accent when listening to or perceiving the sounds of the new language (for a review see Strange, 1995, 2007; Escudero, 2005). It is well‐established that the learners’ native or first language influences how they hear and categorise L2 sounds (e.g., Flege, 1995; Flege, Bohn & Jang, 1997; Escudero, 2005; Best & Tyler, 2007). The present study examined group differences in the discrimination of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels by Australian English monolinguals and Spanish listeners who learned English as their L2. It also investigated whether vowel inventory and vowel acoustic properties are equally good predictors of crosslanguage perception difficulty.]]
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/545809
UR - http://doe.concordia.ca/cslp/cslp_cms/?q=node/261
M3 - Conference Paper
SP - 145
EP - 156
BT - Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2013): Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics: May 17-19, 2013, Concordia University, Canada
PB - Concordia University
T2 - International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech
Y2 - 17 May 2013
ER -