New Sounds 2007

 

Fifth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech

 

November 25 to 28, 2007

 

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

 

 

 

New Sounds 2007 Proceedings

 

The reference to the volume is:

Rauber, A. S., Watkins, M. A., & Baptista, B. O. (Eds.) (2008). New Sounds 2007: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Florianópolis, Brazil: Federal University of Santa Catarina.

ISBN: 978-85-98703-04-6, available at http://www.nupffale.ufsc.br/newsounds/proceedings

 

  Preface and Contents i-vi
Andressa Brawerman Albini Stress placement in suffixed words by Brazilian students of English 1-9

Cristina Aliaga-García & Joan C. Mora

Assessing the effects of phonetic training on L2 sound perception and production 10-27
Clerton Luiz Felix Barboza Production of English front vowels by Brazilian EFL teachers in Western Rio Grande do Norte 28-37
Marcia Regina Becker Acoustic analysis of the production of [m] and [n] in codas by Brazilian students 38-43
Melissa Bettoni-Techio, Denise C. Kluge, 
Mara Silvia Reis, & Denize Nobre-Oliveira
An adaptation of the CDT and working memory capacity 44-52
Melissa Bettoni-Techio & Rosana D. Koerich Perceptual training on the pronunciation of /s/-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese/English interphonology 53-66

Walcir Cardoso

When input frequency patterns fail to drive learning: The acquisition of sC onset clusters 67-85
Walcir Cardoso, Paul John, & Leif French The variable perception of /s/ + coronal onset clusters in Brazilian Portuguese English 86-106

Juli Cebrian

Interaction of L2 phonotactics and L1 syllable structure in L2 vowel production 107-113

Chiara Celata

Allophonic variation can affect L2 speech perception: Evidence from a Tuscan neutralization process 114-124

Deunézio Cornelian Jr.

Brazilian learners’ production of initial /s/ clusters: phonological structure and environment 125-137
Lidia Costamagna The acquisition of Italian L2 affricates: The case of a Brazilian learner 138-148

Biljana Čubrović

Reconstructing English postalveolar sequences: The case of Serbian EFL learners 149-152

Fernanda Delatorre & Rosana Denise Koerich

The influence of preceding context and cluster length on the production of English words ending in -ed by Brazilians 153-164

Wim van Dommelen & Olaf Husby

Perception of Norwegian word tones by Chinese and German listeners 165-174
Guilherme Duran & Margarida da Silveira Corsi A produção dos fonemas vocálicos de alunos universitários de língua francesa: Resultados parciais 175-188
Fred Eckman, Gregory Iverson, Robert Allen Fox, Ewa Jacewicz, & Soyoung Lee Perception and production in the acquisition of L2 phonemic contrasts 189-198
Marcia Fernandes-Boechat & Karim Siebeneicher Brito Speaking  models: from Levelt´s monolingual to Williams & Hammarberg´s  polyglot 199-206

Natalia Fullana & Joan C. Mora

Production and perception of voicing contrasts in English word-final obstruents: Assessing the effects of experience and starting age 207-221
Maria Lucia de Castro Gomes The production of words with the morpheme ED by Brazilian speakers of English as a foreign language 222-235
Simone Hashiguti Dimensions of the body in the production of sounds 236-242
Matthias Jilka, Henrike Baumotte, Natalie Lewandowski, Susanne Reiterer, & Giuseppina Rota Assessing individual talent in second language production and perception 243-258

Paul John & Walcir Cardoso

Francophone ESL learners’ difficulties with English /h/

259-273
Denise Cristina Kluge, Mara Silvia Reis, Denize Nobre-Oliveira, & Melissa Bettoni-Techio The use of visual cues in the perception of English syllable-final nasals by Brazilian EFL learners 274-281
Lidija Krebs-Lazendic & Catherine T. Best Early and late bilinguals’ vowel perception and production: English vowel contrast that gives Serbian-English bilinguals a H(E)AD-ache 282-292

Esther Gómez Lacabex,  María Luisa García Lecumberri, & Martin Cooke

Perception of English vowel reduction by trained Spanish learners 293-299
Joceli Rocha Lima Ensino de pronúncia: Uma experiência de prática distintiva de vogais do inglês 300-312

Raquel Llama, Walcir Cardoso, & Laura Collins

The roles of typology and L2 status in the acquisition of L3 phonology: The influence of previously learnt languages on L3 speech production 313-323

Ian R. A. MacKay & Natalia Fullana

Starting age and exposure effects on EFL learners’ sound production in a formal learning context 324-335
Roy C. Major & Barbara O. Baptista First language attrition in foreign accent detection 336-341
Jasmina Markič A contrastive approach in teaching European Spanish and European Portuguese pronunciation to Slovene students 342-349

Adriana Marusso & Thaïs Cristófaro Silva

A contrastive analysis of schwa in English and Portuguese 350-360
Lurdes de Castro Moutinho, Rosa Lídia Coimbra, & Jean-Pierre Zerling Contrastive analysis of intonation patterns in French and European Portuguese 361-372

Aurora M. S. Neiva, Myrian A. de Freitas, & Mônica M. R. Nobre

Is the pronunciation of the “s” between vowel letters really unpredictable in English? 373-381
Denize Nobre-Oliveira Effects of perceptual training on the learning of English vowels in non-native settings 382-389
Diego Jiquilin Ramirez

A gradiência das fricativas posteriores em línguas em contato: O caso do guarani e do espanhol do Paraguai

390-397

Mara Silvia Reis & Denize Nobre-Oliveira

Effects of perceptual training on the identification and production of the English voiceless plosives aspiration by Brazilian EFL learners 398-407

Mara Silvia Reis, Denise Cristina Kluge, & Melissa Bettoni-Techio

Different task type and the perception of the English interdental fricatives 408-419
Paulina D. Artimonte Rocca New trends on the teaching of intonation of foreign languages 420-428
Leonor Scliar-Cabral Decay of early phonetic discrimination 429-432
Izabel Christine Seara & Jaqueline Alves Scarduelli Vogais francesas produzidas por falantes do português brasileiro: Um experimento acústico 433-445
Adelaide H. P. Silva Towards a dynamic view on L2 acquisition 446-458
Rosane Silveira Investigating the role of orthography in the acquisition of L2 pronunciation: A case study 459-472

Rastislav Sustarsic

Application of a speech archive analysis to English pronunciation teaching 473-476
Michael Alan Watkins Variability in pretonic vowel reduction by fluent Brazilian speakers of English 477-480

Magdalena Wrembel

The impact of voice quality resetting on the perception of a foreign accent in third language acquisition 481-491
Mehmet Yavaş Factors influencing the VOT of English long lag stops and interlanguage phonology 492-498
Erratum:

The correct title of Lacabex, García Lecumberri & Cook is "Perception of English Vowel Reduction by Trained Spanish Learners", and not "Identification of the contrast full vowel-schwa: Training effects and generalization to a new perceptual context", as previously announced (Oct. 17, 2009).

 

                                      

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