Mireia Ortega
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mireia Ortega is involved.
Articles
2026 Examining the relationship between speech rhythm, fluency measures and comprehensibility ratings in L2 English speech Journal of Second Language Pronunciation: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the relationship between speech rhythm, utterance fluency, and native listeners’ perceptions of comprehensibility and fluency in second language (L2) English. Eighty-two advanced Spanish–Catalan bilingual learners of English completed a spontaneous speaking task, from… read more
2021 Chapter 14. Differential effects of lexical and non-lexical high-variability phonetic training on the production of L2 vowels English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights, Kirkova-Naskova, Anastazija, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González (eds.), pp. 327–356 | Chapter
This study investigated the effects of phonetically-oriented and lexically-oriented high-variability phonetic training. Forty-one L1-Catalan/Spanish EFL learners were randomly assigned to three groups. Two were trained on the English /æ/-/ʌ/ contrast either through nonwords (n=14) or words… read more

