Ms Paola Escudero Neyra
SENIOR LECTURER,
The MARCS Institute
Personal
Qualifications
- MA Sc University of Edinburgh
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- The MARCS Institute
Contact
| Email: | Paola.Escudero@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6493 |
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| Location: | 1.G.137 Bankstown |
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Publications
Books
- Escudero, P. (2005), 'Linguistic Perception and Second Language Acquisition: Explaining the acquisition of optimal phonological categorization', : Utrecht University 9076864802.
Chapters in Books
- Escudero, P. (2011), 'Insights from Acquisition and Learning - Speech Processing in Bilingual and Multilingual Listeners: The Relation between Sound Perception and Word Recognition', The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, Oxford University Press 9780199575039.
- Escudero, P. and Benders, T. (2010), 'Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition: Empirical findings, methodological issues, and theoretical implications', The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics, John Benjamins 9789027255334.
- Escudero, P. (2009), 'Linguistic Perception of "similar" L2 sounds', Phonology in Perception, 9783110219227.
- Boersma, P. and Escudero, P. (2008), 'Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: An Optimality Theory account', Contrast in phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition, Mouton de Gruyter 9783110198218.
- Escudero, P. (2007), 'Second Language Phonology: The Role of Perception', Phonology in context, Macmillan .
- Escudero, P. (2006), 'The phonological and phonetic development of new vowel contrasts in Spanish learners of English.', English with a Latin beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish - English interphonology, John Benjamins .
Journal Articles
- Escudero, P., Simon, E. and Mitterer, H. (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, 9.
- Ohms, V., Escudero, P., Lammers, K. and Ten Cate, C. (2012), 'Zebra finches and Dutch adults exhibit the same cue weighting bias in vowel perception', Animal Cognition, 7.
- Chladkova, K. and Escudero, P. (2012), 'Comparing vowel perception and production in Spanish and Portuguese: European versus Latin American dialects', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Escudero, P. and Williams, D. (2012), 'Native dialect influences second-language vowel perception: Peruvian versus Iberian Spanish learners of Dutch.', Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 7.
- Lipski, S., Escudero, P. and Benders, T. (2012), 'Language experience modulates weighting of acoustic cues for vowel perception: An event-related potential study', Psychophysiology, 13.
- Benders, T., Escudero, P. and Sjerpa, M. (2012), 'The interrelation between acoustic context effects and available response categories in speech sound categorization', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 9.
- Chladkova, K. and Escudero, P. (2012), 'Comparing vowel perception and production in Spanish and Portuguese : European versus Latin American dialects', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Escudero, P., Simon, E. and Mitterer, H. (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, 9.
- Ohms, V., Escudero, P., Lammers, K. and Ten Cate, C. (2012), 'Zebra finches and Dutch adults exhibit the same cue weighting bias in vowel perception', Animal Cognition, 7.
- Escudero, P. and Williams, D. (2012), 'Native dialect influences second-language vowel perception : Peruvian versus Iberian Spanish learners of Dutch', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Lipski, S., Escudero, P. and Benders, T. (2012), 'Language experience modulates weighting of acoustic cues for vowel perception : an event-related potential study', Psychophysiology, 13.
- Benders, T., Escudero, P. and Sjerpa, M. (2012), 'The interrelation between acoustic context effects and available response categories in speech sound categorization', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 9.
- Escudero, P. and Williams, D. (2011), 'Perceptual assimilation of Dutch vowels by Peruvian Spanish listeners', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Chladkova, K., Escudero, P. and Boersma, P. (2011), 'Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 13.
- Escudero, P. and Vasiliev, P. (2011), 'Cross-language acoustic similarity predicts perceptual assimilation of Canadian English and Canadian French vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Escudero, P., Benders, T. and Wanrooij, K. (2011), 'Enhanced bimodal distributions facilitate the learning of second language vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Giezen, M., Escudero, P. and Baker, A. (2010), 'Use of acoustic cues by children with cochlear implants', Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 18.
- Escudero, P. and Chladkova, K. (2010), 'Spanish listeners' perception of American and Southern British English vowels: Different initial stages for L2 development', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 7.
- Escudero, P. and Wanrooij, K. (2010), 'The Effect of L1 Orthography on Non-native Vowel Perception', Language & Speech, 23.
- Mayr, R. and Escudero, P. (2010), 'Explaining individual variation in L2 perception: rounded vowels in English learners of German', Bilingualism, Language and Cognition, 19.
- Escudero, P., Benders, T. and Lipski, S. (2009), 'Native, non-native and L2 perceptual cue weighting for Dutch vowels: The case of Dutch, German, and Spanish listeners', Journal of Phonetics, 14.
- Escudero, P., Boersma, P., Rauber, A. and Bion, R. (2009), 'A cross-dialectal acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 15.
- Curtin, S., Fennell, C. and Escudero, P. (2009), 'Weighting of vowel cues explains patterns of word-object associative learning', Developmental Science, 7.
- Escudero, P., Hayes-Hard, R. and Mitterer, H. (2008), 'Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access', Journal of Phonetics, 16.
- Escudero, P. (2007), 'Multilingual sound perception and word recognition', Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 11.
- Boersma, P. and Escudero, P. (2005), 'Measuring relative cue weighting: a reply to Morrison', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 11.
Conference Papers
- Van Leussen, J., Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2011), 'Acoustic Properties of Dutch Steady-State Vowels: Contextual Effects and a Comparison with Previous Studies', 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
- Benders, T. and Escudero, P. (2010), 'The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of responses categories in vowel perception', Proceedings of Interspeech, China.
- Gulian, M., Escudero, P. and Boersma, P. (2007), 'Supervision hampers distributional learning of vowel contrasts', Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
- Escudero, P. and Bion, R. (2007), 'Modelling vowel normalization and sound perception as sequential processes', Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
- Morrison, G. and Escudero, P. (2007), 'A cross-dialect comparison of Peninsula- and Peruvian-Spanish vow', Proceedings of the15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
- Escudero, P., Kastelein, J., Weiand, K. and Van Son, R. (2007), 'Formal modelling of L2 perceptual learning: Computational linguistics versus machine learning', Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, N/A.
- Bion, R., Escudero, P., Rauber, A. and Baptista, B. (2006), 'Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English front vowels', Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, .
- Rauber, A., Escudero, P., Rauber, A. and Baptista, B. (2005), 'The interrelation between the perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese', Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - 9th biennial conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), .
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Understanding different speakers vs. different accents: apples and apples or apples and pears? |
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| Years: | 2013-01-01 - |
| ID: | P00020808 |
| UWS Researchers: | Paola Escudero Neyra |
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