Leonardo Contreras Roa
List of John Benjamins publications in which Leonardo Contreras Roa is involved.
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. The use of interjections as a discourse phenomenon: A contrastive study of Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande) Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Chapter
This study describes and compares two conventionalized uses of interjections in traditional narratives in Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande). First, interjections are shown to be associated with a quotative function: they help signal instances of reported speech. The use of interjections interacts… read more
2021 The /s/ ~ /z/ voice contrast in L1 French, L1 Spanish and L1 Italian learners of L2 English Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:2, pp. 210–250 | Article
In this study, we present a comparative corpus-based analysis of the English /s/ ~ /z/ voice contrast for learners of three L1s. Acoustic analysis of periodicity and duration for target segments confirms expectations based on L1 transfer and on the Markedness Differential Hypothesis. We found… read more