El Language Acquisition Laboratory (UVaLAL) de la Universidad de Valladolid, junto con el Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lenguas y Culturas en Contacto, organiza, el viernes 4 de julio, de 10:00hrs. a 11:00hrs., la conferencia "Phonetic and phonological transfer in second language acquisition". Tendrá lugar en el Seminario del Departamento de Inglés de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras en Valladolid.
Será impartido por Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona).
Sobre la conferencia
In this presentation, I report on two research projects currently underway in our laboratory. Both projects deal with the perceptual processing of obstruent consonants in a second language. The first project concerns the perception of English fricative consonants by learners whose first language is Portuguese or Spanish. We conducted a perceptual discrimination task (using the ABX paradigm) and an identification task (a forced-choice task) with three populations: L1 English (Americans, control group), L1 Spanish L2 English (Mexicans), and L1 Portuguese L2 English (Portuguese). Three consonant contrasts were examined: /s/-/f/ (as control), /s/-/z/, and /s/-/ʃ/. The second project concerns the perception of voicing contrasts in English stop consonants by learners whose first language is Arabic. We conducted a perceptual identification experiment on three synthetic acoustic continua that vary in VOT: /b/-/p/, /d/-/t/, /g/-/k/. Together, these studies support the idea thatsecond language learners use the perceptualstrategies of their first language to process speech in their second language. Co-authors: Ellen Deemer, Bouchra El Harrak, Mourad Abdennebi