Publications – Juli Cebrian

Research publications

Cebrian, J., Gavaldà, N., Gorba, C. & Carlet, A. (2024). Differential effects of identification and discrimination training tasks on L2 vowel identification and discrimination. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263124000408

Cebrian, J. and Mora, J. C. (2024). Online Assessment of Cross-Linguistic Similarity as a Measure of L2 Perceptual Categorization Accuracy. Languages, 9 (5), 152. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050152

Cebrian, J. (2023). L2 Vowel Learning. In C. A. Chapelle (general editor) and M. Munro, A. Huensch, C. Nagle, and J. Levis (area editors). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Cebrian, J. and Gorba, C. (2023). Exploring the relationship between individual differences in cross-language perceived similarity and L2 vowel perception.
In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2726–2730). Guarant International. ISBN 978-80-908 114-2-3.

Gorba, C. and Cebrian, J. (2023). The acquisition of L2 voiced stops by English learners of Spanish and Spanish learners of English. Speech Communication, 146: 93-108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2022.12.003.

Cebrian, J. (2022). Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners. Part II. Perceptual vs ecphoric similarity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5), 2781–2793. Doi: 10.1121/10.0014902

Copyright (2021) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. It appears in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at DOI: 10.1121/10.0014902

Cebrian, J. (2022). Review of Wayland (2021): Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 8(4). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.21039.ceb

Carlet, A., & Cebrian, J. (2022). The roles of task, segment type, and attention in L2 perceptual training. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(2), 271-299. doi:10.1017/S0142716421000515.

Carlet, A., Cebrian, J., Gavaldà, N., Gorba, C. (2022). Does metalinguistic knowledge about the L2 enhance the effectiveness of L2 perceptual training? In Beatriz Blecua, Jordi Cicres, Marina Espejel, i María J. Machuca (eds.) Propuestas en fonética experimental: enfoques metodológicos y nuevas tecnologías. Universitat de Girona-Servei de Publicacions, pp. 31-35. ISBN: 978 84 8458 590 9. https://dugi-doc.udg.edu/handle/10256/20770, https://www.udg.edu/ca/viu/edicions-udg/cataleg

Gorba, C., Cortés, S., Cebrian, J., Gavaldà, N. (2022). Investigating the role of cognate status in L2 perception and production. In Beatriz Blecua, Jordi Cicres, Marina Espejel, i María J. Machuca (eds.) Propuestas en fonética experimental: enfoques metodológicos y nuevas tecnologías. Universitat de Girona-Servei de Publicacions, pp. 122-126. ISBN: 978 84 8458 590 9. https://dugi-doc.udg.edu/handle/10256/20770, https://www.udg.edu/ca/viu/edicions-udg/cataleg

Gorba, C. and Cebrian, J. (2021). The role of L2 experience in L1 and L2 perception and production of voiceless stops by English learners of Spanish. Journal of Phonetics, 88, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101094

Cebrian, J., Gorba, C., Gavaldà, N. (2021). When the easy becomes difficult: Factors affecting the acquisition of the English /iː/-/ɪ/ contrast. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 1-17. Doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.660917.

Cebrian, J. (2021). Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners: A study of reciprocal cross-linguistic similarity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(4), 2671–2685. Doi: 10.1121/10.0004257

Liu, Z., Gorba, C., Cebrian, J. (2019). Effects of learning an additional language on VOT perception. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 260-264). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 2019. ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1.

Cebrian, J., Carlet, A., Gorba, C., Gavaldà, N. (2019). Perceptual training affects L2 perception but not cross-linguistic similarity. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 929-933). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 2019. ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1.

Cebrian, J. (2019) Perceptual asymmetries and lexical effects in L2 vowel discrimination. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2590-2594). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 2019. ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1.

Cebrian, J. (2019) Perceptual assimilation of British English vowels to Spanish monophthongs and diphthongs. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145 (1), EL52-EL58. Copyright (2019) Acoustical Society of America. Doi: 10.1121/1.5087645.

This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. It appears in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at the following link.

Carlet, A. & Cebrian, J. (2019) Assessing the effect of perceptual training on L2 vowel identification, generalization and long-term effects. In Anne Mette Nyvad, Michaela Hejná, Anders Højen, Anna Bothe Jespersen & Mette Hjortshøj Sørensen (eds.): A Sound Approach to Language Matters – In Honor of Ocke-Schwen Bohn. Dept. of English, School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University, pp. 91-119.

Cebrian, J. (2019) Percepció de vocals catalanes per part d’anglòfons: Similitud interlingüística i conseqüències per l’aprenentatge. In Pons-Moll, C., Carrera Sabaté, J., Bach-Marquès, J., Jiménez Torress, L. (coord.), Eines per a l’aprenentatge del català com a L2 i LE. Barcelona: Editorial Graó, pp. 23-35. ISBN: 978-84-9980-936-6. Link to publisher.

Cebrian, J. (2019). Methodological issues in the assessment of cross-language phonetic similarity. In José María Lahoz-Bengoechea & Rubén Pérez Ramón (Eds), Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences (p. 47-53). Málaga: Universidad de Málaga. (ISBN: 979-84-09-12881-5).

Cebrian, J. (2017). Perception of Catalan vowels and diphthongs by native English speakers. In V. Marrero & E. Estebas (Eds.), Current Trends in Experimental Phonetics. Madrid: UNED/CSCIC, pp. 201-204. ISBN: 978-84-697-7855-5.

Jułkowska, I. & Cebrian, J. (2015). Effects of listener factors and stimulus properties on the intelligibility, comprehensibility and foreign accentedness of L2 speech. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 1(2), 211-237. doi:10.1075/jslp.1.2.04jul (ISSN: 2215-1931).

Cebrian, J. (2015). Reciprocal measures of perceived similarity. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 892, p.01-4. See link.

Carlet, A. & Cebrian, J. (2015) Identification vs. discrimination training: Learning effects for trained and untrained sounds. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 752, p. 1-4. See link.

Cebrian, J. & Carlet, A. (2014). Second language learners’ identification of target language phonemes: A short-term phonetic training study. Canadian Modern Language Review 70(4), 474-499. doi: 10.3138/cmlr.2318 (ISSN 0008-4506 (Print); 1710-1131 (Online)).

Carlet, A. & Cebrian, J. (2014). Training Catalan speakers to identify L2 consonants and vowels: A short-term high variability training study. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 5, 85-98.

Jułkowska, I. A., & Cebrian, J. (2013). Intelligibility, comprehensibility and foreign accentedness in the speech of Polish L2 English speakers. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP3), pp. 45-48. Murcia, Spain: University of Murcia.

Cebrian, J. (2013). Syllables. In C. A. Chapelle (general editor) and J. Levis & M. Munro (area editors). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 9, pp. 5488-5495. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (ISBN: 978-1-4051-9473-0). DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1134

Cebrian, J. & Carlet, A. (2012) Audiovisual perception of native and non-native sounds by native and non-native speakers. In Martín Alegre, S., Moyer, M., Pladevall, E. & Tubau, S. (eds.). At a Time of Crisis: English and American Studies in Spain, pp. 300-307. Dept. Filologia Anglesa i Germanística, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/AEDEAN. (ISBN-10: 84-695-4273-7, ISBN-13: 978-84-695-4273-6).

Cebrian, J. & Chambers, C. G. (2011). Subphonemic detail in lexical preception and production: The case of Canadian Raising. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, edited by Wai-Sum Lee & Eric Zee. City University of Hong Kong, pp. 424-427.

Cebrian, J. (2011). Cross-linguistic perception of Catalan and English diphthongs. In Wrembel, M., Kul, M., Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk, K. (eds.), Achievements and perspectives in the acquisition of second language speech: New Sounds 2010, Volume II, pp. 43-51. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-631-60723-7. (peer-reviewed revised version of the NS2010 proceedings paper).

Curell, H., Martín, S., Capdevila, M., Cebrian, J., Gimeno, L., Hand, F., Owen, D., Pladevall, E. & Vraciu, A. (2011) L’adaptació al nou espai europeu d’ensenyament superior: Estudis anglesos a la UAB. In VI Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI). Nous espais de qualitat en l’educació superior.Una anàlisi comparada i de tendències. CD-ROM. ISBN: 978-84-8458-339-4.

Cebrian, J., J.C. Mora & C. Aliaga García. (2011). Assessing crosslinguistic similarity by means of rated discrimination and perceptual assimilation tasks. In Wrembel, M., Kul, M., Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk, K. (eds.), Achievements and perspectives in the acquisition of second language speech: New Sounds 2010, Volume I, pp. 41-52. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-631-60722-0. (peer-reviewed revised version of the NS2010 proceedings paper).

Cebrian, J. (2010) Cross-linguistic perception of diphthongs by Spanish/Catalan speakers and English speakers A K. Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk, M. Wrembel and M. Kul (eds), New Sounds 2010 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, pp. 73-76. ISBN: 978-83-928167-9-9.

Cebrian, J., J.C. Mora & C. Aliaga García. (2010) Assessing crosslinguistic similarity by means of rated discrimination and perceptual assimilation tasks. A K. Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk, M. Wrembel and M. Kul (eds), New Sounds 2010 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, pp. 77-82. ISBN: 978-83-928167-9-9.

Cebrian, J. (2009) Interaction of L2 phonotactics and L1 syllable structure in L2 vowel production. In A M. A. Watkins, A. S. Rauber, i B. O. Baptista (eds.), Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production, pp. 234-243. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 9781443811255.

Cebrian, J. (2009). Syllabification of medial consonants in L1 and L2 English. In M. Amengual, M. Juan & J. Salazar (eds.), Actes del XXXII Congrés de l’Associació Espanyola de Estudis Anglo-Nordamericans (AEDEAN), pp. 365-370. Palma de Mallorca: Universitat de les Illes Balears. ISBN: 978-84-8384-124-2.

Cebrian, J. (2009) Exploring the roles of instruction and word familiarity in L2 vowel identification. In M. Ashby and J. Maidment (Eds.), Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching & Learning Conference. University College London (pp. 23-26).

Cebrian, J. (2009). Effects of native language and amount of experience on crosslinguistic perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 125, No. 4, Pt. 2, April, p. 2775. ISSN: 0001-4966.

Cebrian, J. (2008) Exploring acoustic correlates of accurate L2 production. Language Design, Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, Special Issue, 1 (New Trends in Experimental Phonetics: Selected Papers from the IV International Conference on Experimental Phonetics, A. Pamies & E. Melguizo (Eds.)), pp.31-38. ISSN: 1139-4218.

Cebrian, J. (2008) The effect of perceptual factors in the acquisition of an L2 vowel contrast. A Avery, E. B. Dresher & K. Rice. (Eds.), Contrast in Phonology: Perception and Acquisition. (pp.303-322). Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-019821-8.

Cebrian, J. (2008) Review of “Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Munro, Murray J. (eds.) (2007). Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.” Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 30.2, pp. 147-153. ISSN: 0210-6124.

Cebrian, J. (2007) Interaction of L2 phonotactics and L1 syllable structure in L2 vowel production. New Sounds 2007: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Florianópolis: Federal University of Santa Catarina, pp.107-113.

Cebrian, J. (2007) Old sounds in new contrasts: L2 production of the English tense-tax vowel distinction.In J. Trouvain & W. J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.Saarbrucken: University of Saarland, pp.1637-1640. ISBN: 978-3-9811535-1-4, (CD ROM: 978-3-9811535-0-7).

Cebrian, J. (2006) Experience and the use of duration in the categorization of L2 vowels. Journal of Phonetics 34, 372-387. ISSN: 0095-4470.

Cebrian, J. (2005) Talker and context effects in native and non-native perception. Actes del XXVIII Congrés de l’Associació Espanyola de Estudis Anglo-Nordamericans (AEDEAN). Editat en CD Rom per J. J. Calvo, J. Tronch, M. del Saz, C. Manuel, B. Pennock i M. J. Coperías. València: Universitat de València. ISBN: 84-3706-3159.

Cebrian, J. (2003) Input and experience in the perception of an L2 temporal and spectral contrast. In D. Recasens, M.J. Solé & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the Phonetics Sciences. Barcelona, Spain: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Causal Productions (pp. 2297-2300). ISBN: 1-876346-48-5.

Cebrian, J. (2002) Perceptual factors in L2 acquisition of English vowels. In M. Falces Sierra, M. Díaz Dueñas & J.M. Pérez Fernández (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXV AEDEAN conference. Granada, Spain: University of Granada/Bernardi Producciones. ISBN 8468821853.

Cebrian, J. (2002) Phonetic similarity and acoustic cue reliance in the perception of a second language contrast. In M. Barrio, M. H. Cuenca, J. Díaz, L F. Rodríguez & J. A. Vidal (Eds.), Proceedings of the II Congreso de Fonética Experimental (II Experimental Phonetics Conference). Seville, Spain: University of Seville (pp. 124-128). ISBN: 84-607-4812-X.

Cebrian, J. (2002) Acquiring a new vowel contrast: The perception of English lax-tense vowels by native Catalan subjects. In A. James & J. Leather (Eds.), Proceedings of the “New Sounds 2000” 4th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam (pp. 48-57).

Cebrian, J. (2001) Effect of Style and Task Variation in L2 Speech Production. In A. Mateos-Aparicio & S. Molina (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXIV AEDEAN Conference. Ciudad Real, Spain: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (CD-Rom edition). ISBN: 8469957090.

Cebrian, J. (2000) Transferability and productivity of L1 rules in Catalan-English interlanguage, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 22, pp 1-26. ISSN: 0272-2631.

Cebrian, J. (1999) Catalan obstruents and opacity: A case for representational ambisyllabicity. In C. Smallwood & S. Béjar (Eds.), Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 17. Toronto: University of Toronto (pp. 58-80).

Cebrian, J. (1998) Markedness and Prosodic Domain in the Transferability of Voicing Rules in Catalan-English Interlanguage. In J. Leather & A. James (Eds.), New Sounds 97. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech. Klagenfurt, Austria: Universtiy of Klagenfurt (pp. 47-54).

Cebrian, J. (1997) Stylistic Variation in Catalan-English Interlanguage. In L. Rowsell, C. Burns & L. Blair (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1997 Canadian Linguistics Association. Calgary: University of Calgary (pp. 13-24).

Cebrian, J. (1997) Transfer of Voicing Processes in Catalan-English Interlanguage. In L. Díaz & C. Pérez (Eds.), Views on the Acquisition and Use of a Second Language. Proceedings of the European Second Language Association 7th Annual Conference. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (pp. 479-488). ISBN: 84-88042-21-3.

Cebrian, J. (1997) SV assimilation in Catalan and the implications for an asymmetrical *NC constraint. In P. Avery & C. Smallwood (Eds.), Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 16, no. 1. Proceedings of the 1997 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. Toronto: University of Toronto (pp. 37-48).

Cebrian, J. (1996) Book Review of Rod Ellis (1994) The Study of Second Language Acquisition, in TESL Canada Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp.53-56.

Textbooks

Kennedy, M., Cebrian, J. & Bradbury, J. 2009. Guided error correction. Exercises for Spanish-speaking students of English Level C1 – Book 1. Servei de Publicacions de la UAB. ISBN: 978-84-490-2613-3

Link to the publisher’s website (table of content, view of first pages).

Kennedy, M., Cebrian, J. & Bradbury, J. 2010. Guided error correction. Exercises for Spanish-speaking students of English Level C1 – Book 2. Servei de Publicacions de la UAB. ISBN: 978-84-490-2664-5.

Link to the publisher’s website (table of content, view of first pages).

Kennedy, M., Pladevall, E. & Cebrian, J. (2012). Guided error correction. Exercises for Spanish-speaking students of English Level B2. Servei de Publicacions de la UAB. ISBN: 978-84-490-2892-2.

Link to the publisher’s website (table of content, viwe of first pages).

Cebrian, Juli. 2018. Phonetics and Phonology. In Juli Cebrian, Hortènsia Curell and Ana Fernàndez Montraveta. Contrastive Linguistics. Oberta UOC Publishing SL. PID_00249318.