Abstract:Previous observations from didactic studies have indicated that Vietnamese learners of German as a foreign language often fail to realize consonantal clusters in German [1, 2, 3]. The present study investigated whether this problem occurs already at the level of perception, i.e., whether Vietnamese learners find it difficult to perceive the difference between a cluster and a single consonant. We focused on the discrimination between the German cluster /ʃt/ and the single consonants /t/ and /ʃ/, both in onset a… Show more
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