Title

High Bandwidth Constant Current Modulation Circuit For Carrier Lifetime Measurements In Semiconductor Lasers

Keywords

Contextualized language; L2 English interlanguage; Phonological variation; Spanish-English bilinguals; Text type

Abstract

This exploratory study analyzes the production of the English /I/ in obligatory contexts by a Spanish-speaking L2 learner of English, whose native phonological system does not include /I/. This study investigates how context - defined by Duranti and Goodwin (1992) as "a frame that surrounds the event being examined and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation" - affects a speaker's ability to accurately produce native-like phonemes in her L2. The results of the study showed that the participant was most accurate in her production of /I/ in the more vernacular register, i.e. narration, than in the more formal register, i.e. minimal pair naming. Apparently, contextual clues influenced the speakers' pronunciation of semantically and phonologically familiar words. The presence of contextualized language appears to facilitate the speaker and activate not only lexical features but also phonological components. In spite of being familiar with the semantics and the phonology of the target words, the subject of the current study achieved greater phonological success with production when the words were contextualized.

Publication Date

3-23-2012

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

8259

Issue

1

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908658

Socpus ID

84858604392 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84858604392

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