Description

• Title:
  Foreign language learners acquire L2 phonetic detail: Goose and Foot fronting in non-native English
• Creator:
  Šimáčková, Šárka;
  Podlipský, Václav Jonáš
• Contributor:
  Palacký University Olomouc;
  Šimáčková, Šárka - sarka.simackova@upol.cz;
  Podlipský, Václav Jonáš - vaclav.j.podlipsky@upol.cz
• 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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2018.04.03;
  2018.02.06
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;15
• Subject:
  back-vowel fronting;
  fine phonetic detail;
  FOOT vowel;
  foreign language learning;
  GOOSE vowel;
  second language phonology
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24384 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.1515/rela-2017-0022
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  other