Search Results - "SIMONET, Miquel"

Language dominance and the perception of the Majorcan Catalan /ʎ/−/ʒ/ contrast: Asymmetrical phonological representations by Ramírez, Marta, Simonet, Miquel

“…Purpose: Bilinguals tend to experience “difficulties” with contrasts specific to their nondominant language. This study investigates the discrimination of the…”
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Perceptual categorization and bilingual language modes: Assessing the double phonemic boundary in early and late bilinguals by Casillas, Joseph V., Simonet, Miquel

“…•Bilinguals switch between language-induced perceptual categorization routines.•Both early bilinguals and late second-language learners benefit from this…”
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Perceptual Sensitivity to Stress in Native English Speakers Learning Spanish as a Second Language by Ortín, Ramsés, Simonet, Miquel

“…Second language (L2) learners of Spanish whose first language (L1) is English tend to find Spanish lexical stress patterns difficult to acquire. This study…”
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Unstressed Vowel Reduction Across Majorcan Catalan Dialects: Production and Spoken Word Recognition by Llompart, Miquel, Simonet, Miquel

“…This study investigates the production and auditory lexical processing of words involved in a patterned phonological alternation in two dialects of Catalan…”
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Foreign-Language Phonetic Development Leads to First-Language Phonetic Drift: Plosive Consonants in Native Portuguese Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Brazil by Osborne, Denise M., Simonet, Miquel

“…Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were…”
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The Perception of Postalveolar English Obstruents by Spanish Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Mexico by López Velarde, Mariela, Simonet, Miquel

“…The present study deals with the perception (identification and discrimination) of an English phonemic contrast (/t∫/–/∫/, as in cheat and sheet) by speakers…”
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Phonetic consequences of dynamic cross-linguistic interference in proficient bilinguals by Simonet, Miquel

“…This study investigates the production and perception of a Catalan-specific vowel contrast by a group of highly proficient, early-onset Catalan–Spanish…”
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Phonological Processing of Stress by Native English Speakers Learning Spanish as a Second Language by Ortín, Ramsés, Simonet, Miquel

“…One feature of Spanish that presents some difficulties to second language (L2) learners whose first language (L1) is English concerns lexical stress. This…”
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Increased language co-activation leads to enhanced cross-linguistic phonetic convergence by Simonet, Miquel, Amengual, Mark

“…Purpose: This study investigates the effects of bilingual language modes (or settings) on the speech production patterns of a group of early Catalan/Spanish…”
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Dark and clear laterals in Catalan and Spanish: Interaction of phonetic categories in early bilinguals by Simonet, Miquel

“…The present study reports on an acoustic analysis of alveolar laterals in two contact languages (Catalan and Spanish) as produced by two groups of…”
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An acoustic study of coarticulatory resistance in “dark” and “light” alveolar laterals by Simonet, Miquel

“…This study reports on the results of an acoustic investigation on the effects of contextual vowels on alveolar laterals in two languages, Spanish and Catalan…”
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Intonational convergence in language contact: Utterance-final F0 contours in Catalan–Spanish early bilinguals by Simonet, Miquel

“…This study investigates utterance-final pitch accents in declaratives in two contact languages (Catalan and Spanish) as produced by two groups of…”
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Production of a Catalan-specific vowel contrast by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals by Simonet, Miquel

“…The present study investigates the acoustics (F1 × F2) of Catalan and Spanish mid-back vowels as produced by highly proficient, early Spanish-Catalan…”
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Editorial: Phonology in the Bilingual and Bidialectal Lexicon by Darcy, Isabelle, Tremblay, Annie, Simonet, Miquel

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Production and perception of the English /æ/–/ɑ/ contrast in switched-dominance speakers by Casillas, Joseph V, Simonet, Miquel

“…This study investigates how fluent second-language (L2) learners of English produce and perceive the /æ/–/ɑ/ vowel contrast of Southwestern American English…”
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Adult Second Language Learning of Spanish Vowels by Cobb, Katherine, Simonet, Miquel

“…The present study reports on the findings of a cross-sectional acoustic study of the production of Spanish vowels by three different groups of speakers: 1)…”
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Intonational convergence in language contact: Utterance-final FO contours in Catalan―Spanish early bilinguals by SIMONET, Miquel

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Dialectal differences in Spanish voiced obstruent allophony: Costa Rican versus Iberian Spanish by Carrasco, Patricio, Hualde, José I, Simonet, Miquel

“…The Spanish voiced obstruents /b d g/ are traditionally described as having each two allophones: stop and fricative (approximant) in complementary…”
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Second Language Acquisition of Spanish /e/ and /ei/ by Native English Speakers by Díaz, Miriam, Simonet, Miquel

“…The present article reports on the findings of a cross-sectional acoustic study of the production of the Spanish /e/-/ei/ contrast, as in pena-peina and…”
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Processing reduced speech across languages and dialects by Warner, Natasha L., Brenner, Daniel, Tucker, Benjamin V., Sung, Jae-Hyun, Ernestus, Mirjam, Simonet, Miquel, Gonzalez, Ana

“…Normal, spontaneous speech utilizes many reduced forms. Consonants in spontaneous speech frequently have a different manner or voicing than would be expected…”
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