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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 . Order the book here
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 Unpublished M.Sc.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.
Peer-reviewed:
Marcel Giezen, Paola Escudero & Anne Baker (under review): Use of acoustic cues by children with cochlear implants.
Paola Escudero & Karin Wanrooij (under review): The effect of L1 orthography on L2 vowel perception
Paola Escudero (under revision): Bilingual and multilingual perception, production and word recognition.
Paola Escudero & Titia Benders (in press): 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., Psychological Reality and Theoretical Validity . John Benjamins.
Robert Mayr & Paola Escudero (in press): Explaining individual variation in L2 perception: rounded vowels in English learners of German. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition.
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 (2009): Linguistic Perception of "similar" L2 sounds. In Boersma, Paul & Silke Hamann (eds.) Phonology in Perception . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
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.
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.
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, Rachel Hayes, Holger Mitterer (2008): Novel L2 words and assymetric lexical access. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 2: 345-360.
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.
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 (2007): Multilingual sound perception and word recognition. Stem, Spraak en Taalpathologie, 93-103.
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.
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.
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
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, non peer-reviewed:
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:
Titia Benders & Paola Escudero: Perceptual cue-weighting and stimulus range effect in vowel categorization.
Katerina Chladkova, Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma: An acoustic analysis of Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels: Phonetic context and dialectal variation.
Silvia Lipski, Paola Escudero, Carsten Eulitz & Titia Benders: Pre-attentive cue weighting.
Paola Escudero, Mirjam Broersma & Ellen Simon: The recognition of minimally different words in native, L2 and L3 listeners.
Evan Cohen, Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma: Predicting adaptation patterns: An auditory-phonological model for similarity in loanwords.
Ivana Brasileiro, Paola Escudero & Rene Kager: Perceptual cue-weighting in monolingual children, bilingual children, and adult L2 learners.
Paola Escudero, Iris Duimeijer, Patti Adank & Hans Van den Velde: Predicting and explaining problems in L2 vowel perception: The case of Spanish learners of Dutch.
Paola Escudero & Klara Weiand: A linguistic model for the interrelation between L2 perceptual and lexical development.
Paola Escudero: Evidence for gradual L2 re-categorization: Boundary shifts in the L2 perception of Canadian French vowels.
Paola Escudero, Jelle Kastelein, Klara Weiand, & Rob van Son: Perceptual vowel spaces in natives listeners versus L2 learners
Upcoming:
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Escudero, Paola, Duinmeijer, I., Van den Velde, H., Adank, P. 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., The comparative effect of phonology and orthography on L2 vowel perception. 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht.
Escudero, P., Giezen, M. & Baker, A. 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, July 2008.
Giezen, M., Bakker, A. & Escudero, P. Bootstrapping of a lexicon by Dutch children with a cochlear implant. 12th Meeting of the Clinical Phonetics and Linguistic Association, Istanbul, June 2008.
Escudero, P., Simon, E. & Mitterer, H. Perception of two English front vowels by L1 Dutch speakers with different regional accents. Acoustics 2008, Paris, June 2008.
Bion, R., Escudero & Morrison, G. Dialectal effects in the perception of vowels produced by first and second language speakers: North Carolinian versus Southern Welsh listeners. Acoustics 2008, Paris, June 2008.
Chladkova, K. Escudero, P. & Boersma, P. A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Peruvian versus European Spanish. Acoustics 2008, Paris, June 2008.
Evan Cohen, Paola Escudero, Paul Boersma. Paper. Old World Conference in Phonology 5 (OCP5), Jan. 23-26, 2008.
Six presentations at New Sounds 2007, Florianopolis, Brazil. 26-29 November.
Andrea Weber, Paola Escudero, Rachel Hayes-Harb & Anne Cutler. Exploring the phonological representations in the L2 lexicon. Workshop on 'Language Processing in First and Second Language Learners', MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, November 23 - 24, 2007.
Rachel Hayes-Harb, Paola Escudero & Holger Mitterer (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, June.
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.
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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.
Paola Escudero (May 12, 2004): The elements of L1 and L2 segmental phonology. Paper presented at the PhD student conference UiLtjes dagen. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.
Paola Escudero (June 5, 2003): Learning L2 “similar” sounds: Can L1 & L2 be optimal? Paper presented at the Aspects of Phonology Workshop, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.
Paola Escudero (April 16, 2003): Learning to categorize "old" sounds. Paper presented at the PhD student conference UiLtjes dagen. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.
Paola Escudero (March 18, 2003): L2 learners and problems in phonological categorization. Handout. Seminar talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Program in Language Acquisition (LAP) Seminar Meetings, McGill University.
Paola Escudero (October 10, 2002): What the acquisition of categorisation tells us about innate categories. Groningen Acquisition Lab, Groningen University.
Paola Escudero (March 1, 2002): Bridging the gap between L2 speech perception research and phonological theory. Seminar series on Optimality Theory and Phonological Acquisition, Utrecht. Also available: the Intro on L2 acquisition.
Paul Boersma & Paola Escudero, University of Reading (June 15, 2001): Phonetically-driven acquisition of Optimality-Theoretic phonology. Graduiertenkolleg Sprache, Information, Logik, University of Munich.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading & Paul Boersma (May 14, 2001): Modelling the perceptual development of phonological contrasts with OT and the GLA. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading (March 7, 2001): Modelling the acquisition of categorisation in first and second-language with Optimatlity Theory and the Gradual Learning Algorithm. Developmental Linguistics Research Group, University of Edinburgh.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading (February 22, 2001): Modelling the perceptual development of first- and second-language phonological contrasts with the Gradual Learning Algorithm. Institute of Phonetic Sciences, Amsterdam.
Paola Escudero, University of Reading & Paul Boersma (February 2, 2001): Differences in production account for differences in perception: The Gradual Learning Algorithm predicts language-specific cue weighting. As a part of Paul Boersma's lectures on Functional Phonology, Centro de Lingu’stica da Universidade de Lisboa.
Paola Escudero, University of Edinburgh and University of Reading (October 4,
2000): La relación entre fonética y fonología: Percepción de información
acústica. Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.