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Phonic mitigation markers for disagreement in interviews of university learners of Spanish as foreign language

Spanish in Context, 2023
In previous studies of the mitigators that occur when a speaker wants to show disagreement with his or her interlocutor, morphosyntactic markers occupy the most relevant part. In oral communication, however, phonic markers play a central role.
María Isabel Medina Soler, María Cecilia Ainciburu   +1 more
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Interpretación auditiva de enunciados interrogativos directos pronominales con y sin matiz de cortesía por aprendientes coreanos en clases de nivel avanzado: un estudio comparativo [PDF]

marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2020
En este artículo se efectúa un análisis de errores cometidos por 60 oyentes (Avanzado 2) en la interpretación auditiva de un estímulo compuesto por enunciados declarativos, enfáticos e interrogativos directos, tanto de valor absoluto como pronominales ...
Barajas de Santiago, Daniel
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]

, 2014
This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
Abercrombie, Abercrombie, Barry, Barry, Broselow, Broselow, Crystal, Crystal, Delattre, Delattre, Dellwo, Dellwo, Di, Di, Dretzke, Dretzke, Flege, Flege, German, German, German, German, Ghazali, Ghazali, Gibbon, Gibbon, Giegerich, Giegerich, Hansen Edwards, Hansen Edwards, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Kaltenbacher, Kaltenbacher, Kendall, Kendall, Kohler, Kohler, Lee, Lee, Lukas Soenning, Mahwah, Mahwah, Nespor, Nespor, Ordin, Ordin, Parkes, Parkes, Pascoe, Pascoe, Peterson, Peterson, Pike, Pike, Porzuczek, Porzuczek, Prosodic, Prosodic, Roach, Roach, Traunmüller, Traunmüller, Wesener, Wesener, Wilcox, Wilcox   +66 more
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“Appropriateness” in foreign language acquisition and use: some theoretical, methodological and ethical considerations [PDF]

, 2008
In this contribution, I focus on the concept of “appropriateness” in the usage, the learning and the teaching of foreign languages. Using a participant-based emic perspective, I investigate multilinguals’ perceptions of appropriateness in their foreign ...
Barron, Besemeres, Dewaele, Dewaele, Dewaele, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kinginger, Kinginger, Leung, Lyster, Pavlenko, Warga, Wilkinson   +12 more
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Accounting for multicompetence and restructuring in the study of speech [PDF]

, 2015
Phonetic studies meant to generalize to monolingual speakers of a target language have often examined individuals with considerable experience using another language, such as the immigrant native speaker.
Chang, Charles B.
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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English [PDF]

, 2015
Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target
Anna Balas, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Best, Best, Brunner, Brunner, Bullock, Bullock, Chang, Chang, Cook, Cook, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Davidson, Davidson, Dilley, Dilley, Dogil, Dogil, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Garellek, Garellek, Geoffrey Schwartz, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Harada, Harada, Kraska, Kraska, Maddieson, Maddieson, Munro, Munro, Newlin, Newlin, Olson, Olson, Sancier, Sancier, Schwartz, Schwartz, Strange, Strange, Sypiańska, Sypiańska, Umeda, Umeda, Waniek, Waniek, Wiese, Wiese, Zampini, Zampini   +62 more
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Lexical Stress Perception in Read Words: A Study with Native Korean Speaker Learners of SFL in Advanced Level Courses at the University

, 2015
The article analyses the problems that Korean speakers who attend the advanced level Spanish courses at the Hankuk University present when learning the phonic component.
Daniel Barajas de Santiago
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners: acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception [PDF]

, 2012
We investigated whether regional differences in the native language (L1) influence the perception of second language (L2) sounds. Many cross-language and L2 perception studies have assumed that the degree of acoustic similarity between L1 and L2 sounds ...
Escudero, Paola, Mitterer, Holger, Simon, Ellen   +2 more
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Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e/ [PDF]

, 2010
The paper concentrates on formation of L2 English vowel categories in the speech of Polish learners. More specifically, it compares distribution of two English categories - /I/ and /e/ relative to neighbouring Polish vowels.
Rojczyk, Arkadiusz
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Production benefits of childhood overhearing [PDF]

, 2003
The current study assessed whether overhearing Spanish during childhood helps later Spanish pronunciation in adulthood. Our preliminary report based on a subset of the data [Au et al., Psychol. Sci.
Au, TKF, Jun, SA, Knightly, LM, Oh, JS
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