Felipe F.
Kupske

Visual cues, body aesthetics & L2 English speech perception

Investigates how visual cues associated with body aesthetics (e.g., race, gender identity, and sexual orientation) influence speech intelligibility, comprehensibility, and perceived foreign accent in L2 English.

The impact of body aesthetics on the perception of L2 English speech by Brazilian bilinguals

Investigated how visual cues — race, gender identity, and sexual orientation — influence intelligibility and the perceived degree of foreign accent. Employed a mixed-methods approach to understand the cognitive and social mechanisms underlying these effects.

Accentedness judgment in L2 English spoken by Brazilian bilinguals over the telephone

Focuses on the perception of accentedness in L2 English spoken over the telephone by Brazilian bilinguals at different proficiency levels, using 24 hours of 4,925 utterances from the CSLU FAE corpus.

Perceived Accents and Perceived Traits: Attitudes Toward L2 English from Diverse L1 Speakers

Investigates how accent influences social judgments of competence, friendliness, and trustworthiness, and how linguistic variation intersects with social perception, stereotypes, and accent bias.

A dinâmica da percepção de sotaque estrangeiro no desenvolvimento do inglês-L2 e no atrito do PB-L1

Creating perception tasks for attrition research

Acoustic Dynamics of L1 Vowel Attrition