Laryngeal stop systems in contact

Simon, Ellen

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“…Similar influences on English have been reported from other languages, as cited above, and current work by Simon (2011) on Dutch learners of English lends empirical second language acquisition support to the arguments and evidence presented by Salmons (2003, 2008) that the "voicing language" stops of Modern Dutch (contrasting voiceless unaspirated with voiced) likely emerged out of the typical Germanic "aspirating language" type (contrasting heavily aspirated with weakly voiced stops) through L2 learning contact with a Romance-type system. Underscoring the synchronic variability of this kind of influence according to the dominant ambient language, Sancier & Fowler (1997:421) report that "Acoustic measurements of our speaker's voiceless stops produced in both Brazilian Portuguese [Romance system] and English [Germanic] show that, whereas her VOTs are always shorter for productions in Brazilian Portuguese than in English, VOTs of stops produced in both languages are shorter after a several month stay in Brazil than after a several month stay in the United States.…”

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Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change

Eckman

Iverson

2014

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change

Eckman

Iverson

2014

Oxford Handbooks Online

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“…Therefore, speakers of voicing languages face extreme difficulty in learning English-voiced stops. Studies by Nasukawa (2010), Shimizu (2011), andSimon (2011), among others, have already demonstrated such literature. Native speakers of English differentiate between voiced and voiceless unaspirated stops of English based on other acoustic correlates or the complementary distribution between these two phonemic categories in many contexts.…”

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Acquisition of Voice Onset Time for Voiced Plosives of English by Adult Learners of Balochistan

Syed¹,

Aldaihani²,

Bibi³

2023

IJEL

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This study focuses on two experiments conducted with Eastern and Western Balochi speakers. In Eastern Balochi, voiceless stops have aspirated features, but in Western Balochi, they are unaspirated. Eighty-four native speakers of both dialects of Balochi participated in this study. Participants of the first experiment produced words of their L1 in a picture naming task, and those of the second experiment read words in English. VOTs of the L1 and L2 voiced stops elicited from recordings of the productions. Results show that speakers of Western Balochi transfer their L1 negative VOTs to L2 English-voiced stops. However, Eastern Balochi speakers produce English-voiced stops with VOTs, significantly different from their L1 VOTs. Though they could not produce English-voiced stops with native-like accuracy, they produced English stops with significantly longer pre-voicing duration than their L1-voiced stops. Therefore, the study concludes that speakers of those languages with stops with negative VOT ranges face more difficulty acquiring L2 voiced stops of short-lag positive VOTs than those learners whose L1 does not have such stops. The speech learning model is used in this study to analyze all results.

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“…Languages like Arabic (Flege & Port, 1981), Saraiki , Dutch (Simon, 2009(Simon, , 2011, Spanish (Flege & Eefting, 1988), Russian (Backley, 2011), Japanese (Shimizu, 2011), Hungarian (Lisker & Abramson, 1964, etc. are considered voicing languages but German (Hamann, 2011), English (Honeybone, 2005), Swedish, Korean, Icelandic (Backley, 2011), etc.…”

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Perception and Production of Consonants of English by Pakistani Speakers

Syed¹,

Ansari²,

Bux³

2017

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This paper depicts a comprehensive picture of consonants of Pakistani English (PakE). The study shows that PakE speakers neutralize aspiration contrast in English stops. In the PakE, /t/ in /st/ cluster on onset of a word (e.g., steal) is produced with more aspiration than that on syllable-initial position without preceding /s/ (e.g., in "teach"). Besides, /t d/ are produced with strong retroflexion but /t/ in tautosyllabic /st/ clusters on word-initial position is produced without retroflexion. Voiced stops are produced with pre-voicing. Dental fricatives /θ ð/ produced by native speakers of English are perceived as [f z] or [s v] by PakE speakers but they produce these fricatives as stop. PakE speakers can realize a difference between clear and dark lateral of English in perception although they do not maintain the same difference in production as they produce English lateral as a clear lateral on onset and coda of syllables. Coronal fricative /ʒ/ is perceived and produced as approximant /j/ and /v w/ as a labial approximant. In PakE [r] is produced with strong trilling and rhoticity on all word-positions.

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Laryngeal stop systems in contact

Cited by 11 publications

References 54 publications

Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change

Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change

Acquisition of Voice Onset Time for Voiced Plosives of English by Adult Learners of Balochistan

Perception and Production of Consonants of English by Pakistani Speakers

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