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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Research in Language

ISSN

1731-7533

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2017

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

15

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

385-403

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85042064250