Abstract

ALVES, Ubiratã Kickhöfel  and  LUCHINI, Pedro Luis. PERCEPCIÓN DE LA DISTINCIÓN ENTRE OCLUSIVAS SORDAS Y SONORAS INICIALES DEL INGLÉS (LE) POR ESTUDIANTES ARGENTINOS: DATOS DE IDENTIFICACIÓN Y DISCRIMINACIÓN. Lingüística [online]. 2016, vol.32, n.1, pp.25-39. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312X.20160002.

In this article, we investigate if Voice Onset Time (VOT) is the main acoustic cue employed by Argentinean students in the identification and discrimination of voicing in word-initial stops in English. Fifteen advanced learners of English participated in the study. Participants took an Identification and a Discrimination (AxB) test, in which four VOT Patterns were investigated: (i) Negative VOT and Zero VOT, which occur variably in the production of voiced stops; (ii) Positive VOT, found in voiceless stops and (iii) Artificial Zero VOT, a manipulated pattern built with the extraction of aspiration in /p/, /t/, /k/. The results confirm that VOT is not the main acoustic cue followed by learners, and that voicing distinctions in the interlanguage are not based on the same acoustic cues employed by native speakers of English

Keywords : VOT; FL Acquisition; Spanish; English.

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