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Gabriel, Christoph; Kireva, Elena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
A remarkable example of Spanish-Italian contact is the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires (Porteño), which is said to be prosodically "Italianized" due to migration-induced contact. The change in Porteño prosody has been interpreted as a result of transfer from the first language (L1) that occurred when Italian immigrants learned…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Language Rhythm, Intonation, Second Language Learning
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McBride, Kara – Hispania, 2015
This study explores which features of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) pronunciation most impact raters' evaluations. Native Spanish speakers (NSSs) from regions with different pronunciation norms were polled: 147 evaluators from northern Mexico and 99 evaluators from central Argentina. These evaluations were contrasted with ratings from…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers