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Spanish accented English: Pronunciation accuracy and factors affecting L2 acquisition

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2002
Summary:
This study examines the English pronunciation of 20 native speakers of Spanish of the Americas who have been living in the United States for a period ranging from 1 to 37 years. The 20 participants were divided into three groups according to their age of arrival and length of residence in the United States. The subjects recorded 22 sentences which contained notorious interference features such as the lax vowels /I, U, ∧, ae/, the distinctions between /c-s/, /s-z/, /theta-t/ and between /b d g/ versus Spanish [beta th gamma]. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors of age of learning, length of residence, amount of L2 use, amount of English instruction, and gender and their significance for the pronunciation accuracy in English.
Title: Spanish accented English: Pronunciation accuracy and factors affecting L2 acquisition.
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Name(s): Donadio, Antonella.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Trammell, Robert L., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 2002
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 59 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study examines the English pronunciation of 20 native speakers of Spanish of the Americas who have been living in the United States for a period ranging from 1 to 37 years. The 20 participants were divided into three groups according to their age of arrival and length of residence in the United States. The subjects recorded 22 sentences which contained notorious interference features such as the lax vowels /I, U, ∧, ae/, the distinctions between /c-s/, /s-z/, /theta-t/ and between /b d g/ versus Spanish [beta th gamma]. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors of age of learning, length of residence, amount of L2 use, amount of English instruction, and gender and their significance for the pronunciation accuracy in English.
Identifier: 9780493772875 (isbn), 12931 (digitool), FADT12931 (IID), fau:9803 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2002.
Subject(s): English language--Pronunciation by foreign speakers
Second language acquisition
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