Zunaira J. Iqbal

The differences in Spanish and English phonology are unique in regards to certain phonemes. For example, in Spanish phonology, unlike English, there is not a distinction between the phonemes /b/ and/v/. In Spanish, the sound of /v/ maps onto /b/ which is why often, many native Spanish speakers replace /v/ sounds in English words with /b/ (e.g., Volleyball is pronounced like bolleyball). This difference in the two languages’ phonologies poses an interesting question: How do Spanish-English bilinguals mentally represent /b/ and /v/ and how does visual information influence the perception of these phonemes?

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Speech perception in noisy situations is difficult, especially when trying to comprehend one’s second language in the presence of background noise. I examine how background noise impacts speech perception along a continuum from /va/ to /ba/ in Spanish-English bilinguals and English monolinguals. The /v/ and /b/ phonemes are of key interest since Spanish phonology maps /v/ onto /b/, whereas English makes a clear distinction between these two sounds. This study also looks at how individual differences in the bilinguals’ language profiles (e.g., age of English acquisition) modulate their speech perception along the /va/ to /ba/ continuum.

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I will be presenting on this research at the virtual 2021 SNL Meeting in October! Be sure to check it out.

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