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• Title:
  Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English
• Creator:
  Schwartz, Geoffrey
• Contributor:
  UAM Poznań
• Description:
  This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a word-initial vowel. Acoustic measurements indicated the degree to which learners transferred Polish-style glottalization on word-initial vowels into their L2 speech. Temporal parameters associated with the production of final voiced obstruents in English were also measured. The results suggest that initial glottalization may be a contributing factor to final devoicing errors. Adopting English-style ‘liaison’ in which the final obstruent is syllabified as an onset to the initial vowel is argued to be a useful goal for English pronunciation syllabi. The implications of the experiment for phonological theory are also discussed. A hierarchical view of syllabic structures proposed in the Onset Prominence environment allows for the non-arbitrary representation of word boundaries in both Polish and English.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.06.12;
  2012.10.21
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;10
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9643 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.2478/v10015-011-0044-7
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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