José Reyes

José Reyes, estudiante tesista del Magíster en Lingüística de la Facultad de Humanidades, USACH

Presentation: “Dialectal allophonic consonant transfer between Chilean Spanish and English in a group of English pedagogy students from a state-funded university” (LING)

Abstract: “This presentation sheds light on an ongoing investigation on the role of regional allophonic consonant clusters found in Chilean Spanish in the production performance of consonant clusters in English as an L2. Chilean Spanish is heavily marked by sociolectal differences where certain sounds are downplayed whereas others are accepted based on these sociolinguistic constructs. This investigation attempts to determine whether these allophones facilitate or interfere with L2 production. The participants are a group of first-year students of English Teaching at a public university in Chile, who are divided into two groups depending on whether they use the affricate allophonic cluster /tɹ̥̌/ and /dɹ̌/ and those speakers who do not. The data is collected through the reading of headlines in General American English (GA) media, which is recorded, transcribed and examined. The data is to be compared so as to determine whether there is a relationship between these users of these Chilean allophone clusters and their production of English versus those who do not use such sounds.”

Bio: English Teacher, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile. TESOL, University of Queensland, Australia. Masters in Linguistics, Universidad de Santiago, Chile. Professor at the English Teaching Department of Universidad Católica del Maule as of 2022 and English Teacher at Plan Humano Coaching Services.

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