Discussing the application of the Perceptual Assimilation Model-L2 to foreign language speech perception: research enquiries and theoretical challenges

• Autor(a) principal: Perozzo, Reiner Vinicius
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Alves, Ubiratã Kickhöfel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/32082
• topic: Ecologia da percepção; Gesto articulatório; PAM-L2; Percepção fônica estrangeira; Articulatory gesture; Foreign speech perception; PAM-L2; Perceptual ecology

This article aims to suggest some changes to the Perceptual Assimilation Model-L2 (PAM-L2 (BEST; TYLER, 2007)], a model of second language speech perception, so that it may account for speech perception of foreign languages. In order to do so, at first we present PAM-L2 and its guidelines, then we list some research studies carried out in Brazil that have utilized the model, and finally we problematize its phonological and philosophical bases. In this regard, we claim for the use of the articulatory gesture conceived by Albano (2001) as the perceptual unit of speech and we suggest that indirect realism may be suitable as a philosophical theory to encompass speech perception in foreign settings of perceptual learning. We conclude our discussion raising some other relevant theoretical and methodological issues, fundamental to the model as a whole.