RT Book, Section
T1 Spoken word recognition by English-speaking learners of Spanish
A1 Lahoz Bengoechea, José María
A1 Tuninetti, Alba
A1 Escudero Neyra, Paola Rocío
A2 Calhoun, Sasha
A2 Escudero Neyra, Paola Rocío
A2 Tabain, Marija
A2 Warren, Paul
AB ABSTRACT: Spoken word recognition is a hard task. As an aid, native listeners develop segmentation strategies efficiently attuned to phonological properties of their language, like the rhythmic unit (foot, syllable, or mora). If second-language (L2) learners persist in using their own unit, they may experience longer processing times and even miss word boundaries. Therefore, the question arises as to whether highly proficient L2-speakers can inhibit their segmentation habits. Native Spanish subjects and English-speaking learners of Spanish took a word-spotting test. Participants heard nonsensical words and had to decide whether a real Spanish word or pseudoword was embedded. Some words and pseudowords were stress-initial; others were stress-medial. Different reaction times for both conditions would indicate foot-based segmentation. RTs showed non-significant differences across conditions for either L1 group. English speakers may interpret Spanish unreduced vowels as cues to foot beginning, with their foot-based segmentation having the same effect as syllable-based in this case.
PB Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association
SN 978-0-646-80069-1
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118031
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118031
LA eng
NO José María Lahoz-Bengoechea, Alba Tuninetti & Paola Escudero 2019. "Spoken word recognition by English-speaking learners of Spanish". In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2243-2247). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
NO This work has been partially funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
NO European Commission
NO ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025