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Presentation: 40 issues of collective reflections on Bodies and Emotions from Latin America
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Prosodic variation and perceptive distinctness? An experiment with some dialectal varieties of Italy.
Cronometrando los intervalos "V-to-V" en italiano: revisión y nuevas hipótesis
This paper is intended to discuss aspects of durational variability of V-to-V intervals in Italian from a phonetically based perspective. Recently, the interest in the phonetic properties underlying rhythm typologies has been growing, also as a consequence of the repeatedly observed weakness of phonological factors in the explanation of rhythmic differences. Timing is only one of the many aspects contributing to language rhythm. The speaker and the text are fundamental sources of variation, in the sense that rhythm depends far more on individual timing strategies than on the phonological structure of a languageEste artículo intenta describir aspectos de la variabilidad duracional de los intervalos V-to-V en italiano desde un punto de vista fonético. Recientemente ha aumentado el interés en las propiedades fonéticas subyacentes en las tipologías rítmicas, también como consecuencia de una debilidad de los factores fonológicos, observada repetidamente la explicación de diferencias rítmicas. El hablante y el texto son fuentes fundamentales de variación, en el sentido de que el ritmo depende más de estrategias temporales individuales que en la estructura fonológica de la lengu
Orthographic forms affect speech perception in a second language:consonant and vowel length in L2 English
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Effects of L1 orthography and L1 phonology on L2 English pronunciation
Recent research has revealed the effects of orthography on the pronunciation of consonant
durations in the L2 English of L1 Italian speakers (e.g. the [p] in floppy being pronounced as longer than
in copy). In this paper we compared this orthographic effect with an orthography-independent effect of
L1 phonology, namely VOT. We measured closure durations and VOT for plosives produced by 30
learners of L2 English in Italy, 30 Italian late bilingual speakers of L2 English living in the UK, and 30
native English speakers. While VOT values produced by late bilinguals differed significantly from those
produced by learners, closure durations were similar across the two groups. Additionally, L1 Italian VOT
values proved that late bilinguals adapted VOT in L2 English by a larger extent than learners. It appears
that the effects of orthography on L2 consonant duration can be more resistant to naturalistic L2
exposure than orthography-independent effects of L1 phonology
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Orthography-induced length contrasts in the second language phonological systems of L2 speakers of English: evidence from minimal pairs
Research shows that the orthographic forms (“spellings”) of second language (L2) words affect speech production in L2 speakers. This study investigated whether English orthographic forms lead L2 speakers to produce English homophonic word pairs as phonological minimal pairs. Targets were 33 orthographic minimal pairs, that is to say homophonic words that would be pronounced as phonological minimal pairs if orthography affects pronunciation. Word pairs contained the same target sound spelled with one letter or two, such as the /n/ in finish and Finnish (both /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ in Standard British English). To test for effects of length and type of L2 exposure, we compared Italian instructed learners of English, Italian-English late bilinguals with lengthy naturalistic exposure, and English natives. A reading-aloud task revealed that Italian speakers of EnglishL2 produce two
English homophonic words as a minimal pair distinguished by different consonant or vowel length, for instance producing the target /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ with a short [n] or a long [nː] to reflect the number of consonant letters in the spelling of the words finish and Finnish. Similar effects were found on the pronunciation of vowels, for instance in the orthographic pair scene-seen (both /siːn/). Naturalistic exposure did not reduce orthographic effects, as effects were found both in learners and in late bilinguals living in an English-speaking environment. It appears that the orthographic form of L2
words can result in the establishment of a phonological contrast that does not exist in the target language. Results have implications for models of L2 phonological development
Nuevos senderos de la investigación social: huellas de la imperancia de estudiar emociones en la era digital Reseña del libro “Emotions in a Digital World: Social Research 4.0”, de Adrián Scribano
Review of the book “Emotions in a Digital World: Social Research 4.0”, by Adrián Scribano
Reseña del libro “Emotions in a Digital World: Social Research 4.0”, de Adrián Scribano
 
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