La similitud perceptiva entre vocals angleses i castellanes

The study carried out by the researcher Juli Cebrián from theDepartment of English and Germanic Philology of the UAB has examined if sequences like Spanish diphthongs play a role in cross-linguistic perception, that is, when speakers perceive the sounds of a second or foreign language. The study, which is representative of research in the field of second language acquisition of phonology (i.e., acquisition of a language's sound system), shows how some English vowels are perceived to be closer to some Spanish diphthongs than to Spanish vowels, highlighting the importance of diphthongs in cross-linguistic perception.