On the status of terminal devoicing as an interlanguage process among Brazilian learners of English

This paper investigates the status of Terminal Devoicing in the light of connectionism, by revisiting this process in a more dynamic framework. It focuses on the acquisition of two acoustic cues that distinguish final voiced from voiceless stops in English: (1) percentage of voicing in the stop clos...

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Main Authors: Márcia Cristina Zimmer, Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2008-01-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/16302