Foreign language learners acquire L2 phonetic detail: Goose and Foot fronting in non-native English

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F17%3A73586041" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/17:73586041 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/rela-2017-0022" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/rela-2017-0022</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rela-2017-0022" target="_blank" >10.1515/rela-2017-0022</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Foreign language learners acquire L2 phonetic detail: Goose and Foot fronting in non-native English
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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