Abstract:This study uses Ultrasound Tongue Imaging and acoustic data to investigate the articulatory strategies used by L1 English L2 French learners to produce round vowels. It has been suggested that learners have more difficulty in producing L2 phones that are "similar" to L1 phones than L2 phones that are completely "new" because learners use L1 categories to produce L2 phones (Flege, 1982; Kamiyama and Vaissiere, 2009). However, this claim is based solely on acoustic data. To this end, the present study records le… Show more
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