%0 Journal Article 
%A Face, Timothy Lee
%T Ultimate attainment of Spanish rhotics by native English-speaking immigrants to Spain

%D 2018
%@ 1889-5425
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/35639
%X This study investigates the ultimate attainment of the second language acquisition of Spanish rhotics by a group of U.S.-born, native
English speaking immigrants to central Spain who are long-time
residents. While previous studies examine the second language
acquisition of Spanish rhotics, these tend to focus on university students
learning Spanish, and thus nothing is known about the extent to
which advanced second language learners develop in their rhotic
pronunciation and how closely they approximate the pronunciation
of native speakers. The extensive immersion in the Spanish language
and culture that characterizes these immigrants gives them as high a
likelihood as one could expect of second language learners of
achieving native-like pronunciation. As a group, however, acoustic
analysis reveals that the immigrants do not approximate nativespeaker performance, though they far exceed that of learners in
other studies. While one immigrant does come close to native-like
performance, most fall short.

%K Spanish
%K Rhotics
%K Second language acquisition
%K Ultimate attainment
%K Phonology
%K Pronunciation
%K Immigrants
%K Español
%K Vibrantes
%K Adquisición de segundas lenguas
%K Estado final de adquisición
%K Fonología
%K Pronunciación
%K Inmigrantes
%K Lingüística
%K Linguistics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
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