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Training Spanish vowels
Carmen Lie-LahuertaResearch Institute ACLCUniversity of [email protected]
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Problem
• Challenging task for L2 learner acquiring new vowel sounds: requires time and individual attention from teacher.
• Native like production of L2 sounds only when learner becomes proficient in perceiving the target sounds L1 vowelsystem is persistent.
• Articulatory properties difficult to describe and
• Vowel articulation is difficult to observe without special instrumentation.
• Critical period.
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Infants lose the ability to discriminate nonnative contrasts
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(Kuhl, 1991)
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English vowel system 12 monophthongs
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Spanish vowel system 5 monophthongs
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Predictions: Multiple Category Assimilation (Morrison 2006)
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Production
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Solution
• The Fix Your Vowels program: hear and see the vowels.
• Shows how and where vowels are formed in the mouth.
• Like playing darts with your voice.
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The architecture of Fix your vowels
• Map of F1 en F2 frecuencies (F1 - F2 ) pinpoints your vowel on the triangle.
• Formant values differ per individual calibration procedure = vowel normalisation (Lobanov 1971)
• Feedback: higher/lower (F1) and forward/backness (F2)
• 200 Spanish words: different male and female speakers
• Student’s voice is recorded as wav files.
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Program Fix your vowels
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F2 (Hz)
F1 (Hz)
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Calibration
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Pronouncing Dónde
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FIX YOUR VOWELS 1.7 . RAR FILE
http://uvafon.hum.uva.nl/dirk/ed/
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Steps to start the program:1. Click on the directory Fix Your Vowels 1.7 dec. 2013.
2. Open Fix Your Vowels.exe
3. Insert surname, initials, student number (8 digits) and gender.
4. Start calibration for your personal vowel triangle: click on the buttons and pronounce an /a:/, /i:/ and /u:/.
5. First practice with the CVC and CVCV nonsense words, after this you can try the real words. You will find the exercises under the button EXPERIMENTS (left at the top of the page)
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Thank you.
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