Elena Schoonmaker-Gates
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Schoonmaker-Gates is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 7. Interlocutor perceptions of regional phone use in L2 Spanish: The Castilian Spanish /θ/ Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin, Solon, Megan, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad (eds.), pp. 178–202 | Chapter
This study examines native and second-language (L2) learner perceptions of the regionally indexed Castilian Spanish /θ/ in learner speech. Native and L2 listeners evaluated how intelligent, kind, and nativelike L2 learners sounded in Spanish when they produced read speech with /θ/ and /s/.… read more
2023 Dialect-specificity and learners’ L2 perceptual resilience after study abroad Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:3, pp. 362–383 | Article
The present study examined the perception of two regional variants of Spanish (theta /Ɵ/ and zheísmo/sheísmo [ʒ, ʃ]) by nonnative speakers of Spanish with and without study abroad experience. The study’s goals were to determine whether learners who study abroad accept regional variants more… read more