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In CAPITAL letters to keynote and invited papers.įull papers can be accessed from the abstracts. Names written in boldface refer to first authors, Reproduced with permission.Īuthor Index and Quick Access to Abstracts Bailey Ĭopyright 1999 The Regents of the University of California. Ohala, Yoko Hasegawa, Manjari Ohala, Daniel Granville, and Ashlee C. Of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 1-7, 1999,Įd. Concerning the external data, the following factor groups predicted phonological gain among all learners: years of formal language instruction, reported use of Spanish before the semester, reported use of Spanish outside the classroom during the semester (days), reported use of Spanish outside the classroom during the semester (hours), gender, entrance Oral Proficiency Interview, exit Oral Proficiency Interview, and level at which formal instruction began.14th ICPhS - San Francisco, CA, USA - 1999ġ4 th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14) San Francisco, CA, USAĪuthor Index Table of Sessions Table of Contents The findings reveal the following patterns for both regular classroom and study abroad students across time: (a) similar gain in the case of voiced initial stops and word-final laterals, (b) lack of gain in the case of intervocalic fricatives, and (c) high levels of accuracy in the case of the palatal nasal in the pretest.



The students read a paragraph with 60 target words including segments such as word-initial stops (i.e., ), intervocalic fricatives (i.e., ), word-final laterals (i.e., ), and palatal nasals (i.e., ). The corpus of this investigation is composed of speech samples from 46 students of Spanish: 26 studying abroad in Spain and 20 in a regular classroom environment in the United States. The present paper examines whether study abroad, as it provides opportunities for authentic L2 context, facilitates the acquisition of Spanish phonology. Studies in SLA have debated the importance of context of learning in the process of developing linguistic skills in a second language (L2).
