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L2 Production of Brazilian Nasal Vowels in Online Dyads: Does a Native Speaker Model Make a Difference?

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Abstract

We examine the production of nasal/nasalized vowels in Portuguese by native speakers of English. Participants interacted in an online spoken conversation with Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Words with the target segments were extracted from the dialogues and categorized in terms of their distance from a native speaker production of the same target type: immediately following a native-speaker example, two turns after a native speaker example, more than three turns after a native speaker example. Twenty-sevenBrazilian Mechanical Turk workers judged the productions and rated them on a scale of 1(heavily-accented) to 6(native-like). Results show that the type of nasal had a greater effect on accentedness judgments than temporal proximity to a native speaker production.

How to Cite:

Shea, C. & Lira, C., (2019) “L2 Production of Brazilian Nasal Vowels in Online Dyads: Does a Native Speaker Model Make a Difference?”, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Proceedings 11(1).