Effects of attention on the production of Spanish consonants by SFL learners
The aim of this paper is to analyse the production of Spanish stops /b, d, g, p, t, k/ and liquids /l, ɾ/ by Mandarin Chinese learners of Spanish (N=10). Two different tasks were used to elicit data: one induced a focus on stops and the other a focus on liquids. Realizations were categorized based...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Estudios de Fonética Experimental |
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| Online Access: | http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/experimentalphonetics/article/view/44007 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to analyse the production of Spanish stops /b, d, g, p, t, k/ and liquids /l, ɾ/ by Mandarin Chinese learners of Spanish (N=10). Two different tasks were used to elicit data: one induced a focus on stops and the other a focus on liquids. Realizations were categorized based on spectral manifestation, and acoustic parameter values between the two groups were compared. The results showed that attention exerts a significant influence on voiced stops and tap production: more inaccurate productions were observed when the learners did not focus on these phonemes. The data also pointed to considerable intra-speaker variation. Learners tended to produce realizations with longer durations in new phonemes: /b, d, g, ɾ/.
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| ISSN: | 1575-5533 2385-3573 |