Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2024
This study analyzed the production and perception of Portuguese and English voiceless stops by twelve heritage learners of European Portuguese. Data were collected through two pseudoword reading tasks, a cross-linguistic rated dissimilarity task, and a cross-language perceptual assimilation task. The results show that Canadian English–European Portuguese bilinguals did not perceptually distinguish between aspirated and plain voiceless stops. However, the acoustic analysis revealed that they produced a significant language-specific difference between English aspirated and Portuguese unaspirated voiceless stops. Individual variation was observed in the categorization and production of heritage Portuguese plain stops and correlated with language use and perceived accent ratings.
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