Production accuracy of L2 vowels: Phonological parsimony and phonetic flexibility

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://content.sciendo.com/abstract/journals/rela/16/2/article-p169.xml" target="_blank" >https://content.sciendo.com/abstract/journals/rela/16/2/article-p169.xml</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2018-0009" target="_blank" >10.2478/rela-2018-0009</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Production accuracy of L2 vowels: Phonological parsimony and phonetic flexibility
Original language description
Ultimate attainment in foreign-language sound learning is addressed via vowel production accuracy in English spoken by advanced Czech EFL learners. English FLEECE–KIT, DRESS–TRAP, and GOOSE–FOOT contrasts are examined in terms of length, height, and backness. Our data show that, while being constrained by phonemic category assimilation (new vowel height distinctions are not created), the learners’ interlanguage combines phonological parsimony (reusing L1 length feature to contrast L2 vowels) with phonetic flexibility (within-category shifts reflecting L1–L2 phonetic dissimilarity). Although achieving native-like phonological competence may not be possible learners who acquire L2 in the prevailingly L1 environment, the Czech learners’ implementations of English vowels revealed their ability to adjust for phonetic detail of L2 sounds.
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
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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