Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

This is an introductory course on the L2/FL acquisition of the phonetic component of languages, a linguistic levels that has proved to be amongst the most difficult to acquire as a FL/L2.

The course analyses the different factors that intervene in the aquisition process and reviews the main theoretical models applied to its study. It also includes an introduction to experimental methods in phonetic research, which shows the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of the subject.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

Students attainment of learning results will be evaluated in a mixed model in which class participation, critical analysis of a relevan journal paper, class presentation and debate will all be taken into account.

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

The

Temario

1. Introduction



2. L2/FL Acquisition

2. 1. Types

2. 2. Possibilities



3. Factors in FL acquisition

3. 1. L1

3. 2. Age

3. 3. Exposure

3. 4. Others



4. Speech perception

4. 1. Nature of speech perception

4. 2. Perception in L1 acquisition

4. 3. Relation between perception and production



5. FL perception models

5.1. Speech Learning Model

5.2. Perceptual Assimilation Model

5.3. Native Language Magnet

5.4. Ontogeny and Philogeny Model



6. Methodological issues for research

6. 1. Design

6. 2. Data gathering



7. Lab sessions & Practical Phonetics

7. 1. Articulatory/acoustic phonetics

7. 2. Auditory phonetics

7. 3. Data acquisition

7. 4. Data analysis

7. 5. Speech perception



Evaluation:

- Theoretical Part: Critical analysis and presentation of a research paper

- Practical Phonetics: Design, collection and analysis of small corpus

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

Course bibliography, course handouts and acoustic analysis programmes.

Bibliografía básica

Aoyama, K., Guion, S., Flege, J.E., Yamada, T. & Akahane-Yamada, R. (2008). "The first years in an L2 speaking environment: A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English". International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 46, 61-90.



Baker, W & Trofimovich (2005) Interaction of native and second language voewle systems in early and late bilinguals. Language & Speech 48, 1-27.



Bent, T., & Bradlow, A. R. (2003). The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114: 1600¿1610.



Best, C. & Tyler, M. (2007). Nonative and second-language speech. Commonalities and complementarities (Bohn,O-S, Munro, M, Eds.). Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning. In honor of James Emil Flege (pp. 13-14). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.



Cutler, A., Smits, R. & Cooper, N. (2005) Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect, peech Communication 47 (2005) 32¿42.



García Lecumberri, M.L. & Cooke, M. (2006) "Effect of masker type on native and non-native consonant perception in noise". JASA, 119, 4, 2445-2454.



Imai, S., Walley, A. & Flege, J. (2004) Lexical frequency and neighborhood density effects on the recognition of native and Spanish-accented words by native English & Spanish listeners JASA 117, 896-907.



Iverson, P. & Evans, B. (2009) Learning English vowels with different first-language vowel systems II: Auditory training for native Spanish and German speakers, JASA, 126, 866¿877.



Munro, M. J. & Derwing, T. M. (2001) Segmental Acquisition in Adult ESL Learners: A Longitudinal Study of Vowel Production. Language Learning, 58, 479-502.



Munro, M. J. & Derwing, T. M. (2006) The functional load principle in ESL pronunciation instruction: An exploratory study, System 34 (2006) 520¿531.



Smiljanic, R. & Bradlow, A. R. (2008). "Stability of temporal contrasts across clear and conversational speech". Journal of Phonetics, 36, 91-113.

Bibliografía de profundización

D.B. Pisoni & R.E. Remez (Eds.), 2005, The Handbook of Speech Perception. Oxford: Blackwell.

Revistas

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America



Speech Communication



Studies in Second Language Acquisition Language Learning



Journal of the International Phonetic Association



Speak Out: Newsletter of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group



TESOL Journal



Language and Speech



Journal of Phonetics

Enlaces

http://www.praat.org/



http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/wasp.htm



http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/phonetics/



http://www.wtt.org.uk/biglisten/