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<br /><hr /><b>Tesis doctoral: </b><br />Schoonmaker-Gates, Elena.
2012. Perception of foreign accent in Spanish by native and nonnative
listeners: Investigating the role of VOT and speech rate. Indiana
University (Estados Unidos), Department of Spanish and Portuguese.<br
/><b>Información de:</b> Elena Schoonmaker-Gates
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/><b>Director/a de tesis: </b>Kimberly Geeslin <br
/><b>Codirectores/as: </b>Erik Willis , Manuel Díaz-Campos , Isabelle
Darcy <br /><br /><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>Previous research on the
perception of foreign accent has focused on the ratings of native and
near-native listeners and few studies have explored the perception of
degree of foreign accent by nonnative listeners, despite the fact that
it could shed light on what language learners perceive as
foreign-accented and potentially tell us about their developing
system. The present dissertation aims to investigate the perception of
degree of foreign accent in Spanish by both native and nonnative
listeners, exploring the effects of various listener-specific
characteristics, including proficiency, on listeners’ perception.
This thesis also explores the role of VOT and speech rate in nonnative
listeners’ perception of foreign accent in Spanish, two cues that
have been found to influence native listeners’ perception of
foreign-accented English in previous studies. <br /><br />In order to
accomplish these goals the read speech of 2 native and 2 nonnative
Spanish speakers, in addition to 11 distracter speakers, was recorded
and Praat’s duration tool was used to create VOT and rate-modified
versions of the read sentences. A total of 26 native speakers and 140
nonnative learners of Spanish heard and rated 210 modified and
unmodified utterances on a 9-point scale of degree of foreign accent.
The statistical analyses revealed significant differences between
native and nonnative listeners’ ratings of unmodified speech. In the
analyses that compared listener ratings of modified and unmodified
utterances, both sets of listeners rated speech as more accented when
it had longer (less native-like) VOTs and when it was slower.
Conversely, listeners also rated nonnative speech as less
foreign-accented when it was reproduced with shorter VOTs and at a
faster rate. A number of listener-specific factors including
proficiency, course enrollment, pronunciation training, comprehension,
and native dialect exposure were also found to be significant
predictors of listeners’ foreign accent perception. The results show
that both linguistic and listener characteristics affect the
perception of foreign accent by native and nonnative listeners of
Spanish, and that contrary to previous findings these two listener
groups do not necessarily perceive degree of foreign accent the
same.</p><br /><b>Área temática:</b> Español como lengua extranjera
(ELE), Español como segunda lengua (EL2), Fonética, Fonología,
Lingüística románica, Variedades del español<br /><br
/><b>Índice</b><br /><p>Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION <br
/>Introduction <br />Foreign Accent <br />The Study of Foreign Accent
Perception <br />Voice-Onset Time <br />Speech Rate <br />The Present
Study <br /><br />Chapter 2. PREVIOUS LITERATURE <br
/>Introduction <br />What Constitutes a Foreign Accent? <br />Factors
Contributing to Foreign Accent <br />Talker-Specific
Characteristics <br />Listener-Specific Characteristics <br
/>Linguistic Characteristics<br />Research Questions <br /><br
/>Chapter 3. METHOD <br />Introduction <br />Participants<br
/>Materials <br />Procedure <br />Data Analysis <br />Listener
Characteristics<br />Linguistic Characteristics<br />Dependent
Variable<br />Statistical Analyses <br /><br />Chapter 4. RESULTS <br
/>Introduction <br />Ratings of Unmodified Speech (NL and NNL) <br
/>Ratings of Unmodified Speech (NNL)<br />Ratings of Unmodified Speech
(NL)<br />Experimental factors <br />Change in ratings of Modified
Speech<br />Conclusion <br /><br />Chapter 5. DISCUSSION<br
/>Introduction <br />Research Question 1A <br />Research Question
1B <br />Research Question 1C <br />Research Question 2A <br
/>Research Question 2B <br />Research Question 3B <br />General
discussion <br />Limitations and Future Directions <br
/>Conclusion <br /><br />References<br /><br />Appendix A: Written
instructions<br />Appendix B: Background Questionnaire (for NNLs)<br
/>Appendix C: Cuestionario Biográfico (for NLs) <br />Appendix D:
Grammar Proficiency Test</p><br /><b>Fecha de lectura o defensa:</b> 6
de abril de 2012<br /><br /><b>Número de págs.:</b> 194<br /><br
/><b>Cómo obtener la tesis:</b> Will be available via ProQuest in
2013; e-mail author for additional information<br /><br /><b>Correo-e
del autor/a:</b> <egates2@elon.edu><br /><br /><b>Información
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