English with a Latin beat : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baptista, Barbara O.

Watkins, Michael Alan.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 31.

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Pronunciation by foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Spoken English.

English language--Study and teaching--Spanish speakers.

English language--Study and teaching--Portuguese speakers.

Physical Description:

vi, 214 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper describes an analysis of the stress patterns used by advanced Brazilian learners in the production of English compound nouns. It was predicted that the lack of distinction between composite nominals and compound nouns in Portuguese would strongly influence the participants to assign primary stress to the final constituent, regardless of the syntax. Data were collected by means of a reading activity which included the target constructions in unrelated sentences. Results confirmed a strong tendency for participants to give greater prominence to the second constituent of compounds, although exceptions to this tendency indicated that the participants' choice of stress pattern may also have been influenced by the length of constituents and relative familiarity of the lexical items involved.

Contents:

English with a Latin Beat

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

The scope of this collection

Theoretical models of L2 phonological acquisition

Overview of the papers

Segmental-level studies

Syllable-level studies

Prosodic-level studies: Stress and rhythm

Some general implications

Acknowledgment

References

I. Segmental-level studies: Vowels

Adult phonetic learning of a second language vowel system

1. Introduction

2. Method

2.1. Participants

2.2. Procedure

3. Results

3.1. Construction of the early IL vowel system

3.2. Evolution of the IL vowel system

4. Discussion

5. Conclusions

Appendix A: English Corpus

Appendix B: Portuguese Corpus

The phonological and phonetic development of new vowel contrasts in Spanish learners of English

2. The experiment

2.1. Subjects and materials

2.3. Results for the /I/-/i/ phonological contrast (AC continuum)

2.4. Results for the phonetic treatment of the contrast: Cue weighting and reliance

2.5. Patterns in L2 individual phonetic perception

3. Discussion

3.1. Linguistic or auditory strategies in L2 perception

3.2. Different performance by four L2 subjects

3.3. L2 performance patterns and a possible stage-like development

4. Conclusions

Age and native language influence on the perception of English vowels

2.1. Subjects

2.2. Stimuli

2.3. Procedure

2.4. Analyses

Acknowledgements

Appendix

II. Syllable-level studies: Codas and onset clusters

The influence of voicing and sonority relationships on the production of English final consonants

1. Introduction.

2. Single-consonant codas in Portuguese-English interlanguage

3. Method

4. Results

4.1. Markedness of the target segment

4.2. Influence of phonological environment

5. Theoretical implications

Perception and production of vowel paragoge by Brazilian EFL students

2.1. Production test

2.2. Perception test

3. Results and discussion

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix A

Appendix B

The sonority cycle and the acquisition of complex onsets

2. Background on the syllable

2.1. The length of margins and markedness

2.2. Sonority sequencing

2.3. Sonority cycle

3. Study one

3.1. The reduction of margins

3.2. Hypotheses

3.3. Method

3.4. Results

3.5. Discussion

4. Study two

4.1. Background

4.2. Studies testing sonority sequencing

4.3. Hypotheses

4.4. Method

4.5. Results

4.6. Discussion

5. Conclusion

The influence of voicing on the production of initial /s/-clusters by Brazilian learners

3.1. Influence of length of cluster

3.2. Influence of the sonority sequencing principle

3.3. Influence of environment

Production of English initial /s/-clusters by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and Argentine Spanish

2. Review of the literature

3.1. Participants

3.2. Material

3.3. Transcription

4. Results and discussion

4.1. Length of cluster

4.2. Internal structure of cluster: /s/+obstruent versus /s/+sonorant

4.3. Internal structure of cluster: /s/+nasal versus /s/+lateral

4.4. Voicing assimilation of /s/ + sonorant clusters by BP speakers

4.5. Phonological environment

5. Conclusion.

Acknowledgements

III. Prosodic-level studies: Stress and rhythm

Variability in the use of weak forms of prepositions

1. Vowel reduction

2.1. Data collection

2.2. Variables

4. General discussion

Acknowledgement

Perception of double stress by Spanish learners of English

3.1. Perception of stress shift

3.2. Perception of stress strength

The production of compound stress by Brazilian learners of English

1. Compound and phrasal stress

2.2. Production task

2.3. Procedures

2.4. Data analysis

3.1. Stress pattern

3.2. Constituent length

3.3. Stress pattern and length of token

4. Discussion of results

4.1. Compounds

4.2. Phrasal-stressed tokens

Examples of sentences used in the production test

Author index

Subject index

The series Studies in Bilingualism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612154911

9781282154919

1282154915

9789027292797

9027292795

OCLC:

705531140