Relación entre la percepción y la producción de las vocales del portugués brasileño por parte de monolingües de español europeo

Jaydene Elvin; Daniel Williams; Paola Escudero

doi:10.3989/loquens.2016.031

Authors

Jaydene Elvin The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Daniel Williams The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language - Linguistics Department, Area of Excellence – Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam,
Paola Escudero The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2016.031

Keywords:

non-native perception, non-native production, interrelation

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels by eight European Spanish monolinguals. Participants’ accuracy on a non-native discrimination task was used to predict performance in non-native production. We also investigated the acoustic similarity between participants’ non-native and native vowel productions. The findings indicate a perception-production link: non-native vowels which were perceptually difficult to discriminate were also less stable and more varied when produced. These findings support the claim of the Second Language Linguistic Perception model (Escudero, 2005; van Leussen & Escudero, 2015) that learners initially perceive and produce the sounds of a second language according to the acoustic properties of the sounds produced in their native language.

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