Perception-based vowel insertion by native Spanish-speaking learners of English

A hypothesis is proposed which claims that vowel prosthesis before word-initial [sC] clusters by L1 Spanish learners of English is a perception-based repair phenomenon conditioned by L1 biases for native patterns of intergestural timing in complex onsets. Data from a series of off-line perception te...

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Main Author: Mark Gibson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Publications de l’Université de Provence 2012-10-01
Series:TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tipa/205