The Production of New and Similar Vowels by Adult German Learners of English  

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Flege, James Emil ; Ocke-Schwen, Bohn

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST Th.2001-) vol. 14 no. 2 (Jun. 1992), page 131-158.

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The study reported in this paper examined the effect of second language (L2) experience on the production of L2 vowels for which acoustic counterparts are either present or absent in the first language (L 1). The hypothesis being tested was that amount of L2 experience would not affect L 1 German speakers' production of the "similar" English vowels Ii, I, el, whereas English language experience would enable L 1 Germans to produce an English-like lrel, which has no counterpart in German. The predictions were tested in two experiments that compared the production of English Ii, I, e, reI by two groups of L 1 German speakers differing in English language experience and an L 1 English control group. An acoustic experiment compared the three groups for spectral and temporal characteristics of the English vowels produced in IbVtl words. The same tokens were assessed for intelligibility in a labeling experiment. The results of both experiments were largely consistent with the hypothesis. The experienced L2 speakers did not produce the similar English vowels Ii, I, el more intelligibly than the inexperienced L2 speakers, nor did experience have a positive effect on approximating the English acoustic norms for these similar vowels. The intelligibility results for the new vowellrel did

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