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• Title:
  Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e
• Creator:
  Rojczyk, Arkadiusz
• Contributor:
  University of Silesia
• Description:
  The paper concentrates on formation of L2 English vowel categories in the speech of Polish learners. More specifically, it compares distribution of two English categories - /I/ and /e/ relative to neighbouring Polish vowels. 43 participants recorded Polish and English vowels in a /bVt/ context. First two formants were measured at a vowel midpoint and plotted on a vowel plane. The results reveal that while a separate /I/ category is formed fairly effectively in Polish learners pronunciation of English, a category of /e/ is almost completely subsumed by a Polish vowel /ϵ
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.06.12;
  2010.10.19
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;8
• Subject:
  second language speech;
  vowel;
  L2 learning;
  pronunciation;
  acoustic analysis
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9571 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.2478/v10015-010-0008-3
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  other