Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e/

• Authors: Arkadiusz Rojczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper concentrates on formation of L2 English vowel categories in the speech of Polish learners. More specifically, it compares distribution of two English categories - /I/ and /e/ relative to neighbouring Polish vowels. 43 participants recorded Polish and English vowels in a /bVt/ context. First two formants were measured at a vowel midpoint and plotted on a vowel plane. The results reveal that while a separate /I/ category is formed fairly effectively in Polish learners pronunciation of English, a category of /e/ is almost completely subsumed by a Polish vowel /ϵ/

Keywords

EN

second language speech; vowel; L2 learning; pronunciation; acoustic analysis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 1-13

Dates

published

2010-09-30

online

2010-10-19

Contributors

author

Arkadiusz Rojczyk

• University of Silesia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-010-0008-3