Language proficiency and sonorant devoicing in English plosive-sonorant clusters
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10475278" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10475278 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3zIMcl71lN" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3zIMcl71lN</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.21.4.06" target="_blank" >10.18778/1731-7533.21.4.06</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Language proficiency and sonorant devoicing in English plosive-sonorant clusters
Original language description
This article explores the timing of phonetic voicing in plosive-sonorant clusters in English. VOT was measured in two groups of Czech learners with different proficiency levels and a native English control group. The hypothesis was that cross-language differences in the implementation of the voicing contrast would be reflected in lower devoicing by the nonnative speakers, modulated by proficiency. 24 participants read a text with plosive-sonorant clusters (such as in plan or troops). The study found that less proficient speakers exhibited smaller degrees of devoicing compared to more proficient speakers, who however did not differ from the native controls. In line with the absence of devoicing in Czech secondary school textbooks, the results provide insight into the interplay between language proficiency and pronunciation details in L2 acquisition.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Research in Language
ISSN
1731-7533
e-ISSN
2083-4616
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
443-459
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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