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PRODUCTION OF VOWELS AND NUCLEAR ACCENTS BY CHILEAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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“This makes nuclearity particularly challenging for Spanish speakers learning English (del Saz & Grau, 2022;Frota & Prieto, 2015;Hoot & Leal, 2020;Landblom & Ionin, 2022;Ortega-Llebaria & Colantoni, 2014;Zubizarreta & Nava, 2011).”
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“By contrast, Germanic languages such as English and German exhibit more rigid constituent order, which places greater pressure on prosody to encode in-situ focus (del Saz & Grau, 2022;Hirsch & Wagner, 2011;Hoot & Leal, 2020;Romero-Trillo, 2012).”
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“While both English and Spanish use prosodic prominence to signal information salience (or focus), they differ in terms of how they do so with English relying more heavily on prosody, whereas Spanish relies more heavily on syntax, and to a lesser extent, prosody.”
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“The canonical English pattern is for NA to fall on the last lexical item (LLI), often referred to as the default or unmarked pattern (Halliday, 1967;del Saz & Grau, 2022;Nilsenová & Swerts, 2012).”
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“In English prosody, the last lexical item (LLI) tends to attract the NA in unmarked utterances (del Saz & Grau, 2022;Halliday, 1967).”
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“Spanish and English both draw on prosodic prominence to express informational salience, yet they differ in the way syntax and prosody interact to achieve communicative salience.”
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“This interpretation is consistent with previous work showing that Spanish-speaking learners often struggle with English accentual patterns that do not follow the LLI rule (del Saz & Grau, 2022;Landblom & Ionin, 2022;Ortega-Llebaria & Colantoni, 2014).”
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“Spanish favours LLI NA placement even in narrow-focus contexts (del Saz & Grau, 2022) and allows greater syntactic flexibility, often allowing focused components to surface in utterance-final position where prosodic prominence aligns with linear order.”
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