17.3413, Books: Applied Linguistics/Language Acquisition: Bayonas

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Date: 14-Nov-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: The Acquisition of Vowels in Spanish and English as Second
Language: Bayonas 

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:08:58
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: The Acquisition of Vowels in Spanish and English as Second Language: Bayonas 

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Title: The Acquisition of Vowels in Spanish and English as Second
Language 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 20  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Author: Mariche García Bayonas

Paperback: ISBN: 9783895864988 Pages: 162 Price: Europe EURO 50.00

Abstract:

This study investigates the perception of Spanish vowels: /a e i o u/ and
English vowels: / i ? ? e? æ u ? o? ? ?/ by native-speakers (NS) of English
learning Spanish and NS of Spanish learning English.  It analyzes and
compares the perception of NS and non-native speakers (NNS)
cross-linguistically.

The perception of English vowels has been investigated in depth (Bohn &
Flege, 1990; Fox, Flege & Munro, 1995; Mitleb, 1984; Munro, 1993), and it
has been cross-linguistically analyzed with French and German among other
languages primarily with discrimination and identification tasks.  Johnson,
Flemming and Wright (1993) analyzed the perception of English vowels by NS
using a method of adjustment (MOA) task.  No previous study, however, has
focused on the investigation of Spanish and English vowels using both
natural and synthesized data, and NS and NNS in identification and MOA tasks. 

English NS learning Spanish (n= 54) and Spanish NS learning English (n= 17)
completed four tasks in Spanish and four in English whereby they were
exposed to both natural and synthesized data (330 synthesized vowels, as in
Johnson et al. 1993) in order to analyze spectral differences in the
perception of both sound systems, and how the learners' system may vary
from that of the NS.  In the natural speech tasks they had to identify the
vowels with which they were provided from list of written words, one of
which contained the target vowel.  In addition, they were asked to select
which synthesized vowel sounds resembled the most the ones whose spelling
was presented to them in the MOA task similar to the one developed by
Johnson et al. (1993).

The results obtained indicate that Spanish NS identify English vowels in a
less native-like manner than English NS identify Spanish vowels.  The
method of adjustment tasks with synthesized data yielded average results
which indicate that Spanish NS perceive most English vowels with formant
values which are different from the ones selected by NS of English. 
However, English NS perceive Spanish vowels which more closely resemble the
ones selected by NS of Spanish. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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