The relationship between Australian English speakers’ non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels

Jaydene Elvin, Paola Escudero, Daniel Williams, Catherine T. Best

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Abstract

![CDATA[This study investigates the relationship between non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels by six Australian English (AusE) monolinguals. Participants’ non-native categorization and discrimination patterns were used to predict performance in non-native production. We further investigated the acoustic similarity between participants’ non-native and native vowel productions. The findings indicate a perception-production link. In particular, non-native vowel production was acoustically similar to native vowel production. We also found that perceptually difficult non-native vowel contrasts were predominantly produced as one single non-native category.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 6-9 December 2016, Parramatta, Australia
PublisherAustralian Speech Science & Technology Association
Pages293-296
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science -
Duration: 6 Dec 2016 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)2207-1296

Conference

ConferenceAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science
Period6/12/16 → …

Keywords

  • speech perception
  • vowels
  • English language
  • Portuguese language

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