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PhD dissertation and MSc thesis:
Paola Escudero (2005): Linguistic Perception and Second Language Acquisition.Explaining the attainment of optimal phonological categorization. Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University. LOT Dissertation Series 113. Abstract and chapter-by-chapter.
Paola Escudero (2000): Developmental patterns in the adult L2 acquisition of new contrasts: The acoustic cue weighting in the perception of Scottish tense/lax vowels in Spanish speakers. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Journal articles:
Paola Escudero, Bianca Sisinni & Mirko Grimaldi (under review): Learning to perceive Southern British English vowels: The initial state for Salento Italian learners.
Daniel Williams & Paola Escudero (under review): A cross-dialectal acoustic comparison of Northern and Southern British English vowels.
Marcel Giezen, Paola Escudero & Anne Baker (under revision): Rapid learning of minimally different words: effects of hearing impairment and sound perception.
Paola Escudero, Rachel Robbins & Scott Johnson (under second review): Visual preferences in infants and adults.
Katerina Chladkova, Paola Escudero & Silvia Lipski (under second review). Preattentive sensitivity to vowel duration reveals native phonology and predicts learning of second-language sounds.
Marcel Giezen, Anne Baker & Paola Escudero (under second review). Effects of signed input on speech processing in deaf children with cochlear implants.
Paola Escudero, Ellen Simon & Karen Mulak (accepted, pending revisions): Learning words in a new language: orthography doesn’t always help. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition.
Karin Wanrooij, Paola Escudero & Maartje Raijmakers (in press): What do listeners learn from exposure to a vowel distribution? An analysis of listening strategies in distributional learning. Journal of Phonetics.
Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, Rebecca Elias, Paola Escudero, Ted Hutman, & Scott Johnson (in press): Atypical Gaze Following in Autism: A Comparison of Three Potential Mechanisms. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Paola Escudero, Mirjam Broersma & Ellen Simon (in press): Learning words in a third language: Effects of vowel inventory and language proficiency. Language and Cognitive Processes.
Paola Escudero & Daniel Williams (2012): Native dialect influences second-language vowel perception: Peruvian versus Iberian Spanish learners of Dutch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, EL406-EL412.
Silvia Lipski, Paola Escudero & Titia Benders (2012): Language experience modulates weighting of acoustic cues for vowel perception: an event-related potentials study. Psychophysiology, 49, 638-650.
Titia Benders, Paola Escudero & Matthias Sjerps (2012): The interrelation between acoustic context effects and available response categories in speech sound categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 3079-3087.
Paola Escudero, Ellen Simon & Holger Mitterer (2012): The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners: Acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception. Journal of Phonetics, 40, 280-288.
Verena Ohms, Paola Escudero, Karin Lammers & Carel ten Cate (2012): Zebra finches and Dutch adults exhibit the same cue weighting bias in vowel perception. Animal Cognition, 15, 155-161.
Katerina Chladkova & Paola Escudero (2012): Comparing vowel perception and production in Spanish and Portuguese: European versus Latin American dialects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 2: EL119-EL125.
Paola Escudero & Polina Vasiliev (2011): Cross-language acoustic similarity predicts perceptual assimilation of Canadian English and Canadian French vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130, 5: EL277-EL283.
Paola Escudero, Titia Benders & Karin Wanrooij (2011): Enhanced vowel distributions facilitate the learning of second language vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130,4: EL206-EL212.
Katerina Chladkova, Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (2011): Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 1: 416-428.
Paola Escudero & Daniel Williams (2011): Spanish listeners' perception of Dutch vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129,1: EL1-EL7.
Marcel Giezen, Paola Escudero & Anne Baker (2010): Use of acoustic cues by children with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 53,6: 1440-1457.
Paola Escudero & Katerina Chladkova (2010): Spanish listeners’ perception of American and Southern British English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128: EL254-EL260.
Paola Escudero & Karin Wanrooij (2010): The effect of L1 orthography on L2 vowel perception. Language and Speech 53,3: 343-365.
Robert Mayr & Paola Escudero (2010): Explaining individual variation in L2 perception: rounded vowels in English learners of German. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition 13: 279-297 .
Paola Escudero, Titia Benders & Silvia Lipski (2009): Native, non-native and L2 perceptual cue weighting for Dutch vowels: The case of Dutch, German, and Spanish listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 452-466.
Paola Escudero, Paul Boersma, Andreia Rauber & Ricardo Bion (2009): A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, 1379-1393.
Suzanne Curtin, Chris Fennell & Paola Escudero (2009): Weighting of Vowel Cues Explains Patterns of Word-Object Associative Learning. Developmental Science, 12, 725-731.
Paola Escudero, Rachel Hayes, Holger Mitterer (2008): Novel L2 words and assymetric lexical access. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 2: 345-360.
Paola Escudero (2007): Multilingual sound perception and word recognition. Stem, Spraak en Taalpathologie, 93-103.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero (2005): Measuring relative cue weighting: reply to Morrison. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27, 4, 607-617. Preprint version
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (2004): Bridging the gap between L2 speech perception research and phonological theory. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 4: 551-585. Preprint version
Book chapters:
Polina Vasiliev & Paola Escudero (in press): Speech perception in second-language Spanish.
Paola Escudero (2011): Speech processing in bilingual and multilingual listeners: The interrelation between sound perception and word recognition. In Abigail C. Cohn, Cécile Fougeron, & Marie K. Huffman (Eds.). The Handbook of Laboratory Phonology (pp. 407-417). Oxford University Press.
Paola Escudero & Titia Benders (2010): Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition: Empirical findings, methodological issues, and theoretical implications. In Lentz, T., de Mulder, H., Nilsen, Ø., & Zondervan A., The Linguistics Enterprise: from knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics . John Benjamins.
Paola Escudero (2009): Linguistic Perception of "similar" L2 sounds. In Boersma, Paul & Silke Hamann (eds.) Phonology in Perception . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero (2008): Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: An Optimality Theory account. In Avery, P., Dresher, E. & Rice, K. (eds.) Contrast in phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter.
Paola Escudero (2006): The phonological and phonetic development of new vowel contrasts in Spanish learners of English. In B. O. Baptista, & M. A. Watkins (Eds.), English with a Latin beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish - English interphonology (pp. 149-161). Studies in Bilingualism 31. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Paola Escudero (2006): Second Language Phonology: The Role of Perception. In M. Pennington (ed.) Phonology in context. Macmillan, UK.
Paola Escudero & Michael Sharwood Smith (2001): Reinventing the native speaker: or ‘What you never wanted to know about the native speaker so never dared to ask.’ In Anna Nizegorodcew and Susan Foster-Cohen (eds.), EuroSLA Yearbook 1, pp. 275-286. John Benjamins.
Conference proceedings, peer-reviewed:
Bianca Sisinni, Paola Escudero & Mirko Grimaldi (under review). Salento Italian listeners’ perception of American English vowels. Proceedings of Interspeech 2013 , Lyon.
Paola Escudero, Karen Mulak & Hayley Vlach (in press). Cross-Situational Statistical Learning of Phonologically Overlapping Words. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society 2013 , Berlin.
Jan-Willem van Leussen, Daniel Williams & Paola Escudero (2011): Acoustic properties of Dutch steady-state vowels: Contextual effects and a comparison with previous studies.Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
Titia Benders & Paola Escudero (2010): The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of responses categories in vowel perception. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010.
Margarita Gulian, Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (2007): Supervision hampers distributional learning of vowel contrasts. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
Paola Escudero & Ricardo Bion (2007): Modelling vowel normalization and sound perception as sequential processes. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
Geoff Morrison & Paola Escudero (2007): A cross-dialect comparison of Peninsula- and Peruvian-Spanish vowels. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
Paola Escudero, Jelle Kastelein, Klara Weiand & Rob van Son (2007): Formal modelling of L2 perceptual learning: Computational linguistics versus machine learning. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007.
Ricardo Bion, Paola Escudero, Andreia Rauber, & Barbara Baptista (2006): Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English front vowels. Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, 1363-1366.
Andreia Rauber, Paola Escudero, Ricardo Bion, & Barbara Baptista (2005): The interrelation between the perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, 2913-2916.
Conference proceedings, non peer-reviewed:
Ellen Simon, Paola Escudero, Mirjam Broersma (2010). Learning minimally different words in a third language: L2 proficiency as a crucial predictor of accuracy in an L3 word learning task. Proceeding of the sixth international symposium on the acquisition of second language speech (New Sounds 2010).
Ricardo Bion, Paola Escudero & Geoff Morrison (2008): Dialectal effects in the perception of vowels produced by L1 and L2 speakers: North Carolinian versus Southern Welsh listeners. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 4, 060005.
Suzanne Curtin, Chris Fennell & Paola Escudero (2007): Infants’ recognition of vowel contrasts in a word learning task. BUCLD proceedings.
Paola Escudero (2004): Revisiting the role of perception in segmental phonology. In K. Kerkhoff, J. de Lange and O. Sadeh Leicht (eds.). UiL OTS Yearbook 2004. Utrecht: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero (2004): Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: An Optimality Theory account. Rutgers
Optimality Archive 684 (23 pages, 2004/09/06)
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (2003): Modelling
the perceptual development of phonological contrasts with Optimality Theory and the Gradual Learning Algorithm. In Arunachalam, Sudha, Elsi Kaiser and
Alexander Williams (eds.) Penn Working Papers
in Linguistics 8.1: Proceedings of the 25th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 71-85. (Also available in Rutgers
Optimality Archive 439, 14 pages, 2001/04/26)
For data and Praat scripts: the P2 web page.
Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero & Rachel Hayes (2003): Learning abstract phonological from auditory phonetic categories: An integrated model for the acquisition of language-specific sound categories. In Sole, M.J., D. Recansens and J. Romero (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , Barcelona.
Paola Escudero & Linda Polka (2003): A cross-language study of vowel categorization and vowel acoustics (with temporary page numbers). In In Sole, M.J., D. Recansens and J. Romero (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , Barcelona.
Paola Escudero (2002): Learning the sounds of a new language: Adults can do it too! Lay language article. In World Wide Press Room of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun Edition. English version, Spanish version
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (2002): The subset problem in
L2 perceptual development: Multiple-category assimilation by Dutch learners of Spanish. In Barbora Skarabela, Sarah Fish, and Anna H.-J. Do (eds.). Proceedings of the 26th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 208-219. Cascadilla.
For data and Praat scripts: the P2b web page.
Paola Escudero (2002): The perception of English vowel contrasts: acoustic cue reliance in the development of new contrasts. In Jonathan Leather & Allan James (eds.). Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2000, pp. 122-131. University of Klagenfurt.
Paola Escudero (2001): The role of the input in the development of L1 and L2 sound contrasts: language-specific cue weighting for vowels. In Do, Anna H.-J., Laura Dominguez and Aimee Johansen (eds.). Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 250-261. Cascadilla.
In preparation:
Laura Colantoni, Jeffrey Steele & Paola Escudero: Second Language Speech: An Introduction to Experimental Methods.
Paola Escudero, Catherine Best & Christine Kitamura: Accent effects in early word learning.
Upcoming:
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Chladkova, K. & Escudero, P. (November 2011). The interrelation between perceived and produced vowel spaces in Brazilian and European Portuguese. ASA, Sand Diego.
Escudero, P. & Chladkova, K. (November 2011). Spanish learners' perception of American and Southern British English vowels. ASA, Sand Diego.
Vasiliev, P. & Escudero, P. (November 2011). Cross-language perception of Brazilian Portuguese vowels by Californian English listeners. ASA, Sand Diego.
Jan-Willem van Leussen, Daniel Williams & Paola Escudero (August, 2011). Acoustic properties of Dutch steady-state vowels: Contextual effects and a comparison with previous studies.17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
Vasiliev, P. & Escudero, P. (November, 2010). Californian English listeners perception of Spanish vowels. ASA Cancun.
Benders, T., Escudero, P. & Sjerps, M. (November, 2010). The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of responses in vowel perception. ASA Cancun.
Benders, T. & Escudero, P. (September, 2010). The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of responses categories in vowel perception. Interspeech 2010, Japan, September.
Simon, E., Escudero, P., & Broersma, M. (May, 2010) Learning minimally different words in a third language: L2 proficiency as a crucial predictor of accuracy in an L3 word learning task. Oral presentation at the Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2010), Poznan, Poland.
Broersma, M., Escudero, P., & Simon, E. (April, 2010) Learning minimally different words in a third language: The importance of second language English proficiency. Poster to be presented at the Bristol speech workshop Psycholinguistic approaches to speech recognition in adverse conditions, Bristol, UK, March.
Giezen, M. Baker, A. & Escudero, P. (April, 2010) Speech recognition in profoundly deaf children with a cochlear implant. Poster presented at the Bristol speech workshop Psycholinguistic approaches to speech recognition in adverse conditions, Bristol, UK, March.
Benders, T., Curtin, S., Escudero, P. & Swingley, D. (March, 2010) Fifteen-month old infants’ sensitivity to vowels’ first and second formant in novel word learning. International Conference on Infants Studies (ISIS), Baltimore.
Escudero, P. Johnson, S., Raijmakers, M. & Mandell, D. (March, 2010) Infants’ categorization of visual versus linguistic stimuli in an anticipatory-eye-movement paradigm. ISIS, Baltimore, March.
Vasiliev, P., Escudero, P. & Quicoli, C. (February, 2010) A psychoacoustic correlate for phonological vowel height? Testing Syrdal & Gopal’s model with Brazilian Portuguese vowels. 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February.
Giezen, M., Bakker, A. & Escudero, P. (November, 2009) Multimodal language perception in school-aged CI children. ESF Rare Diseases II: Hearing and Sight Loss, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
Brasileiro, I. & Escudero, P. (July, 2009) Delay and acceleration in bilingual perceptual development Seventh International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7), Utrecht University, July.
Escudero, Paola, Duinmeijer, I., Van den Velde, H., Adank, P. (July, 2009) Predicting and explaining problems in L2 vowel perception: The case of Spanish learners of Dutch. 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht.
Escudero, Paola, Wanrooij, K., Clason, K. (July, 2009) The comparative effect of phonology and orthography on L2 vowel perception. 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht.
Escudero, P., Giezen, M. & Baker, A. (July, 2008) Extending the linguistic comprehension model to explain pre-lexical and lexical development in children with a cochlear implant. XI International Congress For The Study Of Child Language, Edinburgh.
Giezen, M., Baker, A. & Escudero, P. (June, 2008) Bootstrapping of a lexicon by Dutch children with a cochlear implant. 12th Meeting of the Clinical Phonetics and Linguistic Association, Istanbul.
Escudero, P., Simon, E. & Mitterer, H. (June 2008) Perception of two English front vowels by L1 Dutch speakers with different regional accents. Acoustics 2008, Paris.
Bion, R., Escudero & Morrison, G. (June 2008) Dialectal effects in the perception of vowels produced by first and second language speakers: North Carolinian versus Southern Welsh listeners. Acoustics 2008, Paris.
Chladkova, K. Escudero, P. & Boersma, P. (June 2008) A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Peruvian versus European Spanish. Acoustics 2008, Paris.
Evan Cohen, Paola Escudero, Paul Boersma. (January 2008) Paper. Old World Conference in Phonology 5 (OCP5).
Six presentations at New Sounds 2007, Florianopolis, Brazil. 26-29 November.
Andrea Weber, Paola Escudero, Rachel Hayes-Harb & Anne Cutler. (November, 2007) Exploring the phonological representations in the L2 lexicon. Workshop on 'Language Processing in First and Second Language Learners', MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.
Rachel Hayes-Harb, Paola Escudero & Holger Mitterer (June, 2007). Orthographic information and the phonological structure of the L2 lexicon. 30th annual Second Language Research Forum. Urbana-Champaign, IL, October.
Two posters presented at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT.
Learning new vowel contrasts: multiple-category assimilation of L2 German [oe:] and [OE]. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), Hamburg, May 30-June 2, 2007 (With Robert Mayr)
The effect of first language and proficiency in the perception of Dutch vowels by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking learners of Dutch. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), Hamburg, May 30-June 2, 2007 (With Ricardo Bion, Klara Weiand & Jelle Kastelein)
Explaining L2 perceptual development: Machine learning vs. computational Stochastic OT vs. human learners. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), Hamburg, May 30-June 2, 2007 (With Klara Weiand, Jelle Kastelein & Rob van Son)
Modelling the interrelation between sound perception and word recognition in language acquisition. Paper. Old World Conference in Phonology 4 Jan. 18-22, 2007.
Infants’ recognition of vowel contrasts in a word learning task. Paper. 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development Nov. 2-5, 2006 (With Suzanne Curtin and Chris Fennell).
Linguistic Comprehension: A formal model for explaining the interrelation of sound perception and word recognition in L1, L2, L3 and bilingual acquisition. Paper presented at EUROSLA 2006.
A linguistic model of the interrelation between perceptual and lexical L2 development. Paper presented at 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference. April 27-30, 2006, Calgary/Banff.
Andreia Rauber, Paola Escudero, Ricardo Bion, & Barbara Baptista. (September 4-8, 2005). The interrelation between the perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Poster to be presented at Interspeech 2005, Lisbon.
Ivana Brasileiro & Paola Escudero (June 15-17, 2005). The perceptual development of a Dutch vowel contrast by Brazilian learners. Poster to be presented at the ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception, London.
Ivana Brasileiro & Paola Escudero (May 14-15, 2005). The acquisition of a "new" contrast in Brazilian Portuguese learners of Dutch. Poster presented at the 1st ASA workshop on Second Language Speech, Vancouver.
Ricardo Bion, Paola Escudero, Barbara Baptista & Andreia Rauber (May 14-15, 2005). A comparison between the production of English vowels by Brazilian EFL learners and the perceptual distance for the distinction of vocalic contrasts. Poster presented at the 1st ASA workshop on Second Language Speech, Vancouver.
Paola Escudero (February 23, 2005): Modelling L1, L2 and bilingual sound perception within phonology. Paper presented at the Speech perception within outside phonology? workshop. 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Association, University of Cologne.
Paola Escudero (September, 2004): Predicting developmental paths for L1 and L2 perception. Paper presented at the Developmental Paths in Phonological Acquisition Conference, University of Leiden.
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (June 25, 2004): L2 re-categorization of an "old" contrast. Poster. 9th Laboratory Phonology conference, Urbana.
Paola Escudero (June 4, 2004): Elements of L1 and L2 segmental phonology. Presented at the TABU Dag, University of Groningen.
Paola Escudero (September 20, 2003): Learning “old/similar” L2 sounds: A functional approach. Paper presented at t he 13th meeting of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), Edinburgh.
Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero & Rachel Hayes (September 4, 2003): An integrated model of the steps by which we learn language-specific sound categories. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) conference, Utrecht.
Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero & Rachel Hayes (August 5, 2003): Learning abstract phonological from auditory phonetic categories: An integrated model for the acquisition of language-specific sound categories. Paper presented at the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , Barcelona.
Paola Escudero & Linda Polka (August 4, 2003): A cross-language study of vowel categorization and vowel acoustics. Poster. Presented at the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , Barcelona.
Linda Polka, Paola Escudero & Shelly Matchett, McGill University (December 3, 2002): Assimilation and discrimination of Canadian French vowels by English-speaking adults. Poster. Session on vowel acoustics and perception. First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics 2-6 December, Cancun, Mexico
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero (June 27, 2002): How sensory substance can vary while phonological representations stay constant. Poster. 8th conference on laboratory phonology. New Haven, Connecticut.
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma(June 4, 2002): The acquisition of L2 phonetic categories: perceptual development in Dutch learners of Spanish. Poster. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Session on crosslinguistic studies: Acoustics and perception, Pittsburgh.
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma(May 3, 2002): Turning an L1 three-way contrast into an L2 two-way contrast. Second International Conference on Contrast in Phonology, Toronto.
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma(April 12, 2002): OT modelling of L1 and L2 vowel categorization. Glow workshop on first and second language acquisition in phonology and Utrecht biannual phonology workshop, Utrecht.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero (April 10, 2002): OT modelling of microvariation in phonological perception and production. Main session on linguistic microvariation, Generative Linguistics in the Old World 25, Amsterdam.
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (November 3, 2001): One-to-multiple mapping in the perceptual development of Dutch learners of Spanish. 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero, McGill University (September 27, 2001): Optimality-Theoretic modelling of phoneme split. The 11th Annual Conference of The European Second Language Association, Paderborn.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero, McGill University (September 16, 2001): Optimality-Theoretic modelling of cue integration. Poster. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2001, Palmela.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading (April 6, 2001): The relative perceptual attention to acoustic cues in the L2 learning of new contrasts: Findings and applications. Phonetics Teaching & Learning Conference 2001, London.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading & Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam (March 3, 2001): Attested correlations between the perceptual development of L2 phonological contrasts and target-language production confirm the Gradual Learning Algorithm. 25th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading (November 5, 2000): Input, L1 and interlanguage strategies in the development of Spanish speakers' perception of English vowels: spectral and durational cue weighting. 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Paola Escudero, University of Edinburgh & Michael Sharwood Smith, Heriot-Watt University (September 9, 2000): The native speaker: Everything you didn't want to know so never dared to ask. The 10th Annual Conference of The European Second Language Association, Krakow.
Paola Escudero, University of Edinburgh (September 6, 2000): The perception of English vowel contrasts: Acoustic cue reliance in the development of L2 perception. New Sounds 2000, the Fourth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech.
Paola Escudero, University of Edinburgh (June 10, 2000): L1 perception of standard Scottish English (SSE) tense/lax vowel contrasts: Spectral and durational acoustic cues 'reliance'. The Third Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics.
Paola Escudero, University of Edinburgh (May 31, 2000): The L1 perception of English vowels and its implications for L2 acquisition: sub-phonemic 'reliance' in the perception of the /i/-/I/ contrast. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 2000, Edinburgh.
Upcoming:
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Paola Escudero (September 2011): Linguistic and visual categorization in infants and adults. CLaS-CCD Research Colloquium Series, Macquarie University.
Paola Escudero (March 2010): The interrelation between sound perception and word recognition in English learners of Spanish. School of International Letters and Cultures. Arizona State University. (with Polina Vasiliev).
Paola Escudero (Sep. 2009): Eye-tracking technology for auditory and visual perception. IFA workshop, University of Amsterdam (with Dorothy Mandell, psychology department).
Paola Escudero (Sep. 2009): Word learning in fifteen-month old infants: Differential sensitivity to vowels’ phonetic detail. Phonology Seminar. University of Southern California (USC).
Paola Escudero (May 2009): First and second language recognition of minimally different words. Psycholinguistics Seminar, Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
Paola Escudero (April 2009 ): Speech perception and word recognition in L1, L2 and bilingual development. Department of Linguistics, Hispanic Linguistics Specialization. USC.
Paola Escudero (March 2009): Language experience modulates reliance on acoustic cues: Evidence from behavioral vowel categorization & event-related potentials. Phonetics Seminar, Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
Paola Escudero (Nov. 2008 ): Orthographic effects in sound perception and word recognition in L2 learners. Workshop on the relation between orthography and phonological acquisition. Ghent University.
Paola Escudero (Feb. 2008): Implicit and explicit sound perception and word recognition: Behavioural, neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic evidence, Cognitive Science Centre Amsterdam, Symposium on Consciousness and Unconscious Processes.
Paola Escudero (Feb. 2008): L2/bilingual sound perception and word recognition: Behavioural, neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic data. ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism, University of Bangor.
Paola Escudero (Jan. 2008): Behavioural, neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic methods for investigating sound perception and word recognition: new insights and new puzzles. Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary
Paola Escudero (November 8, 2007): Methodological issues in sound perception and word recognition research with different population. Experimental methods in language acquisition research (Emlar), Utrecht.
Paola Escudero (May 1, 2006): Sound perception, word recognition, and language representation in bilinguals. Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary.
Paola Escudero (February 4, 2005): Linguistic Perception in L1, L2 and bilingual acquisition. Invited talk. Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University.
Paola Escudero (June 18, 2004): The development of L2 categorization in multiple scenarios. Presented at the summer meeting of the Dutch Association for Phonetic Sciences: First and second language development. Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Paola Escudero (May 6, 2004): Elements and learning mechanisms behind L1 and L2 segmental phonology". Lecture give at the leture series of the PhD Graduate Program "Linguistic representations and their interpretation", University of Stuttgart.
Paola Escudero (July 24, 2003): L2 speech perception in OT: Initial state and development. Paper presented at the Berlin Workshop on Logic, Neural networks and Optimality Theory.
Paola Escudero (December 5, 2002): Solving problems between vowel systems. Special Session on Spanish and English in contact. First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics 2-6 December, Cancun, Mexico. Abstract.
Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (December 20, 2001): One-to-multiple mapping in the perception of Dutch learners of Spanish. Dag van de Fonetiek, Utrecht.