The Acquisition of Fine Phonetic Detail in a Foreign Language: Perception and Production of Stops in L2 English and L1 Portuguese

This study investigated the perception and production of L2 English and L1 Portuguese stops in initial position by analyzing the acquisition of voice onset time (VOT) categories. 36 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) learners of English and 36 monolingual BP speakers, all of them living in Brazil, participat...

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Main Author: Osborne, Denise Maria
Other Authors: Simonet, Miquel
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620956
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/620956