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The Effects of Cross-Language Differences on Bilingual Production and/or Perception of Sentence-Level Intonation by Colantoni, Laura, Mennen, Ineke

“…We put together this Special Issue with the goal of collecting state-of-the art articles on the intonational patterns of different types of bilinguals, with a…”
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The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax by Colantoni, Laura, Sánchez, Liliana

“…The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have…”
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Can Prosody Encode Recursive Embedding? Children's Realizations of Complex NPs in Japanese by Hirayama, Manami, Colantoni, Laura, Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa

“…Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28)…”
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L1 influence on the L2 acquisition of English word-final nasal place contrasts: An electropalatographic study of L1 Japanese and Spanish learners by Colantoni, Laura, Kochetov, Alexei, Steele, Jeffrey

“…Languages differ in the extent to which phonologicalcontrasts observed in onsets are neutralized syllable finally. We examined theacquisition of English…”
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Perception and Production of Sentence Types by Inuktitut-English Bilinguals by Colantoni, Laura, Klassen, Gabrielle, Patience, Matthew, Radu, Malina, Tararova, Olga

“…We explore the perception and production of English statements, absolute yes-no questions, and declarative questions by Inuktitut-English sequential…”
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Evidence-Based Design Principles for Spanish Pronunciation Teaching by Colantoni, Laura, Escudero, Paola, Marrero-Aguiar, Victoria, Steele, Jeffrey

“…In spite of the considerable body of pedagogical and experimental research providing clear insights into best practices for pronunciation instruction, there…”
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The Mixed Effects of Phonetic Input Variability on Relative Ease of L2 Learning: Evidence from English Learners’ Production of French and Spanish Stop-Rhotic Clusters by Colantoni, Laura, Steele, Jeffrey

“…We examined the consequences of within-category phonetic variability in the input on non-native learners’ production accuracy. Following previous empirical…”
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A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement by Colantoni, Laura, Martínez, Ruth, Mazzaro, Natalia, Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Rinaldi, Natalia

“…Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/a…”
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Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties: A perception study by Colantoni, Laura, Hualde, Jose-Ignacio, Icardo Isasi, Ane

“…Clitic elements are prosodically attached to another phonological word. As such, they do not carry their own stress. In general, Spanish non-prepositional…”
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Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony by Colantoni, Laura, Kochetov, Alexei, Steele, Jeffrey

“…In many English varieties, /l/ is produced differently in onsets and codas. Compared with “light” syllable-initial realizations, “dark” syllable-final variants…”
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Articulatory settings and L2 English coronal consonants by Colantoni, Laura, Kochetov, Alexei, Steele, Jeffrey

“…: We explore the potential contribution of Articulatory Settings (AS) theory to L2 speech production research, testing the hypothesis that L2 segmental speech…”
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L2 ENGLISH INTONATION: Relations between Form-Meaning Associations, Access to Meaning, and L1 Transfer by Ortega-Llebaria, Marta, Colantoni, Laura

“…Although there is consistent evidence that higher levels of processing, such as learning the form-meaning associations specific to the second language (L2),…”
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An electropalatography study of nasal-trill/lateral sequences in Spanish by Colantoni, Laura, Kochetov, Alexei

“…Trills and laterals require relatively precise articulatory and aerodynamic settings that are at least partly incompatible with setting necessary to produce…”
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Integrating Articulatory Constraints into Models of Second Language Phonological Acquisition by Colantoni, Laura, Steele, Jeffrey

“…Models such as Eckman's markedness differential hypothesis, Flege's speech learning model, and Brown's feature-based theory of perception seek to explain and…”
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L2 ENGLISH INTONATION by Ortega-Llebaria, Marta, Colantoni, Laura

“…Although there is consistent evidence that higher levels of processing, such as learning the form-meaning associations specific to the second language (L2),…”
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Coronal place contrasts in Argentine and Cuban Spanish: An electropalatographic study by Kochetov, Alexei, Colantoni, Laura

“…Theoretical and descriptive work on Spanish phonetics and phonology has been largely based on Peninsular varieties. This study uses electropalatography (EPG)…”
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Articulatory characteristics of coronal consonants in Argentine Spanish: An electropalatographic study by Kochetov, Alexei, Colantoni, Laura

“…Previous articulatory investigations of Spanish have been largely limited to its Peninsular varieties. This study uses electropalatography (EPG) to investigate…”
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Introducción: Fonética y fonología del español en la Argentina by Laura Colantoni

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Introducción: Fonética y fonología del español de la Argentina by Colantoni, Laura

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ACQUIRING /[alveolar approximant]/ IN CONTEXT by Colantoni, Laura, Steele, Jeffrey

“…This article seeks to illuminate the degree of position-based variation observed in the acquisition of new segments in a second language and to explain such…”
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