The Role of acoustic cues in idiomatic disambiguation
VOT Development of La Residencia students I am collaborating with Rajiv Rao to analyze and visualize the data produced by a longitudinal project studying the pronunciation development of students living in a domestic immersion program called La Residencia.
In this talk I presented preliminary results of a production experiment I conducted with the help of 13 native speakers of Spanish. Using a modified Discourse Completion Task to provide background information, participants produced a set of 20 minimally different pairs of sentences where the key difference was the interpretation the participants had in mind at the time of production.