Error analysis of the pronunciation of English consonants (original) (raw)

Vowel Values in L2 Speech: A Case Study of Faro-Danish / Sjálvljóðavirði í føroyskum-donskum

Fróðskaparrit - Faroese Scientific Journal, 2020

In this article, we ask how asymmetrical bilinguals with Faroese (FA) as their L(anguage)1 and Faro-Danish (FADA) as their first L2 pronounce the Danish (DA) long vowels. We investigate which of the following three alternatives reflects the actual situation: 1. there is an interaction between the two phonetic subsystems; 2. speakers use Danish pronunciation; or 3. they simply impose the Faroese phonological system onto their Faro-Danish pronunciation.By describing the vowel system of Faro-Danish, this study contributes significantly to the yet unexplored field of Faro-Danish phonetics, as well as revealing some of the linguistic dynamics that characterizes the bilingual situation in the Faroe Islands.ÚrtakHer verður kannað, hvussu asymmetriskir tvímælingar við føroyskum sum M(ál)1 og føroyskum-donskum sum M2 bera fram donsk sjálvljóð. Vit kanna, um sínámillum ávirkan er ímillum tær fonetisku skipanirnar, ella um talandi nýta eina danska úttalu ella ota føroyskar framburðarvanar niðu...

Finnish-English phonetics and phonology

International Journal of English Studies, 2001

This paper first gives a summary of the theoretical approaches to the role of phonetics and phonology in language learning and teaching as developed by the Finnish-English Cross-Language Project at the University of Jyvtkkyla. In the Finnish project, the analysis was extended over the the chains of connected speech to deal with all the phenomena that give them their rhythm in speech. The project did not find it sufficient to produce simple one-to-one equations between the best structural descriptions of the two languages because many of learners' difficulties in pronunciation cannot be assigned to phoneme paradigms. The paper also includes a survey of the findings of Finnish-English contrastive phonetics and phonology, and a description of potential sources of difficulties in Finns' pronunciation of English

A perceptual investigation in spoken Trøndersk Norwegian

The present study investigated the circumstances of perception around the merger of the voiceless palatal fricative /ç/ and the voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/ as uttered by speakers of the Trøndersk variety of Norwegian. Specifically, this study looked at the inference of speaker age on the perception of said fricatives. The investigation was carried out through the means of an online setup, in which 140 participants were exposed to two experimental conditions, each containing two speakers; the speakers uttered 5 semi-randomised tokens for each word of a minimal pair (kjære ‘dear’, and skjære ‘to cut’) whose initial fricative sounds were edited on a five-step continuum to assume the spectral features of the opposing phonemes, for a total of 10 tokens per speaker. The two aforementioned speakers were presented as 24 and 40 years old, alternating the declared age between conditions. The participants had to listen to the tokens and make a choice between the two orthographic forms of...

Faroese. A Language Course for Beginners

Fróðskaparrit - Faroese Scientific Journal, 2015

Jonathan Adams and Hjalmar P. Petersen. 2009. Faroese. A Language Course for Beginners. Textbook. Stiðin, Tórshavn.. xiv + 400 pages. (A cd is included)Hjalmar P. Petersen and Jonathan Adams. Faroese. A Language course for Beginners. Grammar. Stiðin, Tórshavn. xiv + 303 pages