Celia Gorba Masip

Celia Gorba Masip is an academic affiliated with the Department of English Philology and German Studies. Her primary research focuses on second language acquisition, phonetics, and cross-linguistic perception. She has been involved in multiple research projects funded by organizations like the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), spanning from 2014 to 2025. Her work explores topics such as L2 vowel and consonant perception, perceptual training effectiveness, and the role of language experience in phonetic categorization.

Key research interests include the interaction between L1 and L2 phonological systems, learner variability in perception, and methodological approaches to assessing L2 proficiency. She has published extensively on cross-language vowel and stop consonant perception, training tasks, and the impact of metalinguistic knowledge on learning outcomes.

Gorba Masip has contributed to datasets like the Gorba and Cebrian 2021 Journal of Phonetics collection, which includes experimental data on speech production and perception. Her recent work emphasizes the differential effects of training tasks on vowel discrimination and the limitations of traditional metrics like full-time equivalence in L2 perception studies.