Wednesday, November 9, 2005
2005-2006/026
Linguist visits U. of I. Nov. 16 to describe study of second language learners
Professor Rachel Hayes-Harb, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah, will give a lecture entitled, "Novel Phoneme Contrasts and the Developing L2 Lexicon," Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005, at 7 p.m., in Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., in Urbana, on the U. of I. campus.
The lecture, sponsored by the Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) program, is free and open to the public.
In her talk, Hayes-Harb will discuss recent work she has done in collaboration with Kyoko Masuda (Georgia Institute of Technology) on the phonological content of second language learners' lexical representations at different levels of second language learning development and the role that non-target-like lexical representations may play in foreign-accented speech.
Hayes-Harb comments, “Studies of second language (L2) speech typically focus on how learners perceive and produce novel L2 sound contrasts; however, very few to date have considered how these contrasts are encoded in learners' lexical representations of L2 words.”
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