- Tytuł:
- Foreign Language Learners Acquire L2 Phonetic Detail: Goose and Foot Fronting in Non-Native English
- Autorzy:
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Šimáčková, Šárka
Podlipský, Václav Jonáš - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/620980.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2017
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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back-vowel fronting
fine phonetic detail
FOOT vowel
foreign language learning
GOOSE vowel
second language phonology - Opis:
- Whether late learners discern fine phonetic detail in second-language (L2) input, form new phonetic categories, and realize them accurately remains a relevant question in L2 phonology, especially for foreign-language (FL) learning characterized by limited exposure to interactional native input. Our study focuses on advanced Czech learners’ production of the L2 English vowels GOOSE and FOOT. While English /u/ and /ʊ/ have been undergoing fronting, their Czech equivalents, /uː/ and /u/, are fully back. We show that although the spectral differentiation of /u/-/ʊ/ is smaller in the learners’ than in native speech, the vowels being contrasted primarily in length, even FL learners can shift their L2 sound categories towards native-like targets, or in this case, produce English /u/-/ʊ/ as fronted.
- Źródło:
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Research in Language; 2017, 15, 4; 385-403
1731-7533 - Pojawia się w:
- Research in Language
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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