On the status of terminal devoicing as an interlanguage process among Brazilian learners of English

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Autor(a) principal: Zimmer, Márcia Cristina
Data de Publicação: 2008
Outros Autores: Alves, Ubiratã Kickhöfel
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Ilha do Desterro
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2008n55p41
Resumo:  This paper investigates the status of Terminal Devoicing in the light of connectionism, by revisiting this process in a more dynamic framework. It focuses on the acquisition of two acoustic cues that distinguish final voiced from voiceless stops in English: (1) percentage of voicing in the stop closure; (2) length of the vowel that precedes the obstruent. Data obtained from Brazilian students of English were compared to those collected from American speakers, in order to check whether the learners' productions differed significantly from native speech. Results showed that neither voicing in the closure nor vowel length were totally neutralized, which indicates that learners are starting to distinguish final voiceless and voiced stops.
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Zimmer, Márcia Cristina
title_short On the status of terminal devoicing as an interlanguage process among Brazilian learners of English
title_full On the status of terminal devoicing as an interlanguage process among Brazilian learners of English
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description  This paper investigates the status of Terminal Devoicing in the light of connectionism, by revisiting this process in a more dynamic framework. It focuses on the acquisition of two acoustic cues that distinguish final voiced from voiceless stops in English: (1) percentage of voicing in the stop closure; (2) length of the vowel that precedes the obstruent. Data obtained from Brazilian students of English were compared to those collected from American speakers, in order to check whether the learners' productions differed significantly from native speech. Results showed that neither voicing in the closure nor vowel length were totally neutralized, which indicates that learners are starting to distinguish final voiceless and voiced stops.
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