Non-Native Attitudes to /θ/ and /ð/: A European Case Study

• Authors: Van Den Doel, Rias , Pinget, Anne-France C. H , Quené, Hugo

Abstracts

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This paper investigates the evaluation of the English sounds /θ/ and /ð/ as produced by European non-native speakers. Using the data from a larger web survey, we compared the error judgements by different native and non-native users of English. This was done to establish whether there is any normative convergence among European non-native speakers, or if this was counteracted by other patterns, such as the presence or absence of these sounds in their L1s. Our analysis shows that while European non-native judges do not differ consistently from native-speakers in their judgements, there are also subtle differences between different groups of non-native speakers, implying that we should be careful not to generalise across groups about non-native attitudes to these sounds.

Keywords

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attitudes; dental fricatives; endonormative; Euro-English; exonormative; nonnative speakers

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2019-01-11

Contributors

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Van Den Doel, Rias

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Pinget, Anne-France C. H

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Quené, Hugo

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Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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Van Den Doel, Rias - [e-mail]

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Pinget, Anne-France C. H. - [e-mail]

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Quené, Hugo - [e-mail]

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26547

DOI

10.2478/rela-2018-0020