Questões de pronúncia e inteligibilidade em contexto de Inglês como língua estrangeira

• Main Author: Barbosa, Marcelo Henrique
• Publication Date: 2013
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Download full: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13639
• topic: Pronúncia; Inglês como língua estrangeira; Inteligibilidade; Pronunciation; English ad a foreign language; Intelligibility; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

This dissertation aims at discussing the relation between pronunciation and intelligibility in context of English as foreign language. It involves an investigation of the speech of Brazilian speakers of English, who learned the language during adulthood, through phonetic-acoustic and perception analyses. 24 native English speakers from 4 different countries performed the perceptive analyses: Australia, Canada, United Stated of America and United Kingdom. For the perceptive analyses performance 4 semantic descriptors have been used: Hard/Easy Understanding; Sounds Natural/Unnatural; Accurate/Inaccurate Intonation; Strong/Subtle Foreign Accent. For the development of this research 7 Brazilian and 4 North American subjects were recruited. The corpus consists of a monologue in English composed of 10 enunciations forming a phonetic inventory, which embody a variety of phonemes that normally represent pronunciation struggles for Brazilian speakers. The monologue was read and recorded at the Radio and TV studio-laboratory of PUCSP. Phonetic- acoustic analyses were done though a software called PRAAT and analyzed the enunciations that indicated more intelligibility s struggle through perceptive perspective. The results obtained points out that the majority of Brazilian subjects pronunciation interfered in the intelligibility of the speech productions; phonetic training contributed to approximate some Brazilians pronunciation to the North American subjects; some characteristics that should be considered within the learning-teaching process of the English language