Recent research interest in the performance of second language learners has neglected the area of phonology learning. This report on a longitudinal study shows the viability of using a sociolinguistic model of sound change for studying the process of learning a target language sound system. The model calls for a variability analysis of the phonetic diversity in the learner's speech. The example analysis shows that learners systematically alter their phonetic output in the direction of a particular target. Significantly, second language learners use the same mechanism found to be operative in native language speakers as they participate in the ongoing linguistic change of their speech community. This finding reveals the psycholinguistic unity of the general process of effecting change in phonological systems. Motivations are provided (1) for regarding the learner's performance as the product of a unique language system and (2) for regarding the system as consisting of variable rules. An example of such a rule is given in detail.
Chomsky et Halle, dans leur livre The Sound Pattern ofEnglish (1968), emettent la diese que les anglophones sont capables d'induire de l'orthographe anglaise quel doit etre le model ä appliquer. L'auteur de cet article est de l'opinion que meme les non anglophones peuvent dans une large mesure prendre l'orthographe anglaise comme point de depart pour leur choix parmi les possibilites d'accentuation et de qualites vocaliques qui se presentent. Une analyse generative de Panglais donne les regles de l'accentuation et des alternances vocaliques, que l'auteur de l'article applique ensuite pedagogiquement en essayant ainsi de les rendre utiles pour Papprentissage de Panglais comme langue etrangere.Chomsky und Halle stellen in ihrem Buch The Sound Pattern ofEnglish (1968) die These auf, daß Muttersprachler das korrekte Betonungsmuster eines englischen Wortes aus seiner Schreibung entnehmen können. Der Autor dieses Artikels ist der Auffassung, daß auch Nichtmuttersprachler die englische Schreibung weitgehend als Ausgangspunkt für die korrekte Wortbetonung und Vokalqualität nehmen können. Eine generative phonologische Analyse des Englischen liefert die Regeln für Betonung und Vokalalternation, die der Autor dieses Artikels pädagogisch umsetzt und somit für das Erlernen des Englischen als Fremdsprache nutzbar zu machen versucht. "It is noteworthy, but not too surprising, that English orthography, despite its often cited inconsistencies, comes remarkably close to being an optimal Orthographie System for English." (Chomsky and Halle 1968: 49)
Learners and teachers of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) take for granted that learning grammar means learning rules. They do not often think of learning rules for pronunciation. Instead, images of listening and speaking come to mind.
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