Articulatory Difficulties in the Acquisition of Spanish /r/ in a Bilingual Context

Manuela González-Bueno

University of Kansas
mgbueno@ku.edu

4th International Symposium on Bilingualism

Results

One Year Articulatory Evolution

Segment	4;0	4;5	4;9	4;10	5;00
[l-] “lata”	[l-] “lata”	[l-] “lata”	[l-] “lata”	[l-] “lata”
[-l-] “bola”	[-l-] “bola” [-r-] “bora”	[-l-] “bola” [-r-] “bora”	[-l-] “bola”	[-l-] “bola”
[rr-] “rana”	[l-] “lana”	[l-] “lana” [gr-] “grana”	[gr-] “grana”	[gr-] “grana”	[rr-] “rana”
[-rr-] “perro”	[-l-] “pelo”	[-l-] “pelo” [-r-] “pero”	[-l-] “pelo”	[-r-] “pero”	[-rr-] “perro”
[-r-] “pera”	[-l-] “pela”	[-l-] “pela”	[-r-] “pera”	[-r-] “pera”	[-r-] “pera”
				Spontaneous speech

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