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- Title
PERCEPÇÃO E PRODUÇÃO DOS PADRÕES DE VOT DO INGLÊS POR APRENDIZES BRASILEIROS: O PAPEL DE MÚLTIPLAS PISTAS ACÚSTICAS SOB UMA PERSPECTIVA DINÂMICA.
- Authors
Kickhöfel ALVES, Ubiratã; ZIMMER, Márcia Cristina
- Abstract
In this study, departing from a dynamic conception of L2 phonetic-phonological acquisition, we investigate 32 Southern Brazilian learners' perception (identification and discrimination) and production of VOT patterns of initial stops in English. We initially hypothesized that, especially among learners with a basic level of L2 proficiency, VOT was not the main acoustic cue employed in the perception of voicing distinctions. Our results show that, regardless of the learners' proficiency level (basic or advanced), VOT is not a sufficient cue for the distinction between /p/, /t/, /k/ and /b/, /d/, /g/. These results, which have an influence on the lower VOT values found in our production data, conform with a dynamic view of L2 acquisition, according to which multiple acoustic cues play a role in language acquisition, forcing learners to tune in to the most important cue(s) in the target language.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH phonetics; ACOUSTIC phonetics; SECOND language acquisition; ENGLISH consonants
- Publication
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2015, Vol 59, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
0002-5216
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1981-5794-1502-7