Fonología

Previous research on the perception of foreign accent has focused on the ratings of native and near-native listeners and few studies have explored the perception of degree of foreign accent by nonnative listeners, despite the fact that it could shed light on what language learners perceive as foreign-accented and potentially tell us about their developing system. The present dissertation aims to investigate the perception of degree of foreign[Leer más]

Native speech is directed towards native listeners, not designed for comprehension and analysis by language learners. Speed of delivery, or economy of effort, produces a speech signal to which the native listener can assign the correct words. There are no discrete words in the speech signal itself therefore there is often a linguistic barrier in dealing with the local spoken language. The creation, development and application of the Dynamic[Leer más]

Este trabajo trata de las dificultades presentadas por los aprendices brasileños cearenses de español como lengua extranjera, en la producción de los fonemas vocálicos /e/ y /o/ en contextos tónico y pretónico. El fundamento teórico se centra en los estudios sobre la adquisición y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras y en consideraciones sobre el fenómeno de las vocales medias en la interlengua de los estudiantes. La investigación es cualitativa y[Leer más]