Michael Alan Watkins
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Alan Watkins plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Articles
Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins 2006
Introduction English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology, Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Miscellaneous
This paper describes an analysis of the stress patterns used by advanced Brazilian learners in the production of English compound nouns. It was predicted that the lack of distinction between composite nominals and compound nouns in Portuguese would strongly influence the participants to assign… read more
This study investigated the influence of phonological environment on variability in the production of the weak forms of four prepositions by advanced Brazilian speakers of English. Results of a VARBRUL analysis indicated that four phonological factors were exerting a significant effect: (a) the… read more