Barbara O. Baptista

List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara O. Baptista plays a role.

Title

English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology

Edited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins

[Studies in Bilingualism, 31] 2006. vi, 214 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Phonology | Romance linguistics

Articles

Baptista, Barbara O. 2006 Adult phonetic learning of a second language vowel systemEnglish with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology, Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins (eds.), pp. 19–40 | Article
A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English vowels by Brazilian Portuguese speakers provides evidence for the claim of Flege’s (1995) speech learning model (SLM) that phonetic learning is possible in adulthood, and further that the results of this learning are apparent even in the early… read more
Baptista, Barbara O. and Jair L.A. da Silva Filho 2006 The influence of voicing and sonority relationships on the production of English final consonantsEnglish with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology, Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins (eds.), pp. 73–89 | Article
This paper examines, within the framework of Flege’s speech learning model (SLM), the relevance of two factors – age and native language – for the acquisition of vowel perception abilities by young Spanish learners of English in a formal instructional environment. Findings indicate that age did… read more
Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins 2006 IntroductionEnglish with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology, Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Miscellaneous
Rebello, Jeanne Teixeira and Barbara O. Baptista 2006 The influence of voicing on the production of initial /s/-clusters by Brazilian learnersEnglish with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology, Baptista, Barbara O. and Michael Alan Watkins (eds.), pp. 139–154 | Article
This paper examines the production of English initial /s/-clusters by Brazilian learners, considering as possible variable constraints cluster length, sonority relations within the syllable, and environment, based on studies by Carlisle with Spanish learners and on Eckman’s markedness differential… read more