PHONETIC CUE INTERPRETATION IN THE ACQUISITION OF A NON-NATIVE VOCALIC CONTRAST
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The study deals with the acquisition of the English vocalic contrast /e/ vs. /æ/ by native speakers of the Serbian language, in which this contrast is unfamiliar, and one of the most difficult among monophthongs to be acquired in English as L2 (cf. Paunović 2002; Marković 2007; 2009; 2012). The authors specifically address the questions of how the categories of /e/ and /æ/ are developed in the interlanguage of relatively proficient learners of English. We hypothesize that the acquisition of this contrast is a stage-like process, which starts from a complete assimilation to the category of the L1 vowel /e/, and is further developed on the basis of durational, rather than spectral cues. In order to test this hypothesis, perception and production experiments were carried out in which different durational contexts were observed.
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Marković, M., & Jakovljević, B. (2017). PHONETIC CUE INTERPRETATION IN THE ACQUISITION OF A NON-NATIVE VOCALIC CONTRAST. ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, 41(1), 215–227. Retrieved from https://godisnjak.ff.uns.ac.rs/index.php/gff/article/view/1849
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Bohn, O. S.–Flege, J. E. (1992). The production of new and similar vowels by adult German learners of English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 14, 131–158.
Cebrian, J. (2006) Experience and the use of non-native duration in L2 vowel categorization. Journal of Phonetics 34/3, 72–387.
Collins, B.–I. M. Mees. (2013). Practical Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge.
Cruttenden, A. (2008). Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. London: Edward Arnold.
Escudero, P. (2002). The Perception of English vowel contrasts: acoustic cue reliance in the development of new contrasts. In: James, A.–Leather, J. (Eds.) New sounds 2000: Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on the acquisition of second language speech. Klagenfurt: Universitätsverlag Carinthia. 122–131.
Flege, J. E. (1995). Second language speech learning: Theory, findings and problems. In: Strange. W. (Ed.) Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language speech research Timonium MD: York Press. 233–277.
Flege, J. E., Bohn, O. S. & Jang, S. (1997). Effects of experience on non-native speakers’ production and perception of English vowels. Journal of Phonetics 25, 437–470.
Hawkins, S. & Midgley, J. (2005). Formant frequencies of RP monophthongs in four age groups of speakers. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35/2, 183–199.
Ivić P. & Lehiste, I. (1967). Prilozi ispitivanju fonetske i fonološke prirode akcenta u savremenom srpskohrvatskom književnom jeziku. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku X, 55–95.
Ivić, P. (1996). Prozodija reči i rečenice u srpskohrvatskom jeziku. Prevod Lj. Subotić. Sremski Karlovci – Novi Sad: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića.
Lass, R. (1991). Phonology: An Introduction to Basic Concepts. Cambridge: CUP.
Lindblom, B. (1963). Spectrographic study of vowel reduction. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 35: 1773–1781.
Marković M.–Bjelaković, I. (2006). Neke akustičke karakteristike vokala u govoru Novog Sada. Godišnjak Filozofskog fakulteta u Novom Sadu XXXI, 327–246.
Marković, M. (2007). Kontrastivna analiza akustičkih i artikulacionih karakteristika vokalskih sistema engleskog i srpskog jezika. PhD thesis. Novi Sad: Filozofski fakultet.
Marković, M. (2009). The Perception and production of the English vowels /e/ and /æ/ by native speakers of Serbian. In: Tsangalidis A. (Ed.) Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 253–262.
Marković, M. (2012). Uporedna proučavanja vokala engleskog i srpskog jezika: između univerzalnog i specifičnog. Novi Sad: Filozofski fakultet.
McAllister, R., Flege, J & Piske, T. (2002). The influence of the L1 on the acquisition of Swedish vowel quantity by native speakers of Spanish, English and Estonian. Journal of Phonetics 30, 229–258.
Paunović, T. (2002). Fonetsko-fonološka interferencija srpskog jezika u percepciji i produkciji engleskih vokala. PhD thesis. Niš: Filozofski fakultet.
Rauber A. S., Escudero, P., Bion, Ricardo A. H. & Baptista, B. (2005). The Interrelation between the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Native Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese”. Proceedings of the Interspeech 2005 – Eurospeech, 2913–2916.
Selinker, L. (1969). Language transfer. General Linguistics 9, 67–92.
Smith, B., Bradlow, Ann R. & Bent, T. (2003). Production and Perception of Temporal Contrasts in Foreign-Accented English. In: Sole, M. J., Recasens, D. & Romero, J. (Eds.). Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. 519–522.