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Voice onset time for voiced and voiceless stops across English proficiency levels for sixteen Puerto Rican Spanish speakers at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

dc.contributor.advisor Dayton, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author Maldonado-Valentin, Mirta
dc.contributor.college College of Arts and Sciences - Arts en_US
dc.contributor.committee Pratt, Ellen
dc.contributor.committee Baker, Joan
dc.contributor.committee Morales, Betsy
dc.contributor.department Department of English en_US
dc.contributor.representative Morales, Alfredo
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-05T21:24:39Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-05T21:24:39Z
dc.date.issued 2007
dc.description.abstract This thesis examined Voice Onset Time (VOT) for voiced and voiceless stops across four English proficiency levels for sixteen Puerto Rican Spanish speakers at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. It used a Production Task to find out whether VOT values of voiceless and voiced stops in the Spanish and English of eight students varied across English proficiency levels and found that VOT values did not vary in Spanish but varied in English. High English proficiency students produced stops within the VOT range for American English; low proficiency students did not. The VOT production of the high proficiency students was consistent with an external target for English; that of the low proficiency students was consistent with inter-language and transfer. It used an Identification Task to examine whether eight students from the proficiency levels could identify the productions from the Production Task and found that identification did not match production.
dc.description.abstract Este proyecto de tesis examina Voice Onset Time (VOT) en las consonants sordas y sonoras en Inglés producidas por dieciseis estudiantes puertorriqueños matriculados en los cuatro niveles de proficiencia de inglés ofrecidos en la Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Mayagüez. Esta tesis incluye una tarea de producción de estas consonantes para descubrir si los valores de VOT de las consonantes sordas y sonoras producidas por ocho estudiantes matriculados en dichos niveles de proficiencia varian através de estos. Esta tesis demuestra que para la producción de estas consonantes producidas en español su VOT no varía a través de estos niveles de proficiencia, pero que sí varía en la producción de estas consonantes producidas en inglés. Esta tesis además incluye una tarea de indentificación que pretende demostrar si otros ocho estudiantes matriculados en los niveles de proficiencia en inglés pueden identificar estas consonante lo cual demostró que no fué asί.
dc.description.graduationYear 2007 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11801/821
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.rights.holder (c) 2007 Mirta Maldonado Valentin en_US
dc.rights.license All rights reserved en_US
dc.subject Psycholinguistics-ability testing en_US
dc.subject English language-phonetics en_US
dc.subject Voice onset time-range en_US
dc.subject Acoustic phonetic software en_US
dc.subject English language-proficiency en_US
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Puerto Rico en_US
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Phonetics en_US
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Study and teaching --Foreign speakers en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Second language acquisition en_US
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Ability testing en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Psycholinguistics -- Ability testing en_US
dc.title Voice onset time for voiced and voiceless stops across English proficiency levels for sixteen Puerto Rican Spanish speakers at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dspace.entity.type Publication
thesis.degree.discipline English Education en_US
thesis.degree.level M.A.E.E. en_US
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