A Model of Underspecified Recognition for Phonological Integration: English Loan Vowels in American Norwegian

Natvig, David

doi:10.1163/19552629-01001003

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“…Another strength of the current theoretical framework is that the PR analysis is not limited to Mandarin and English, but it can be applied to various languages. The PR is based on MCS which posits that the contrastive feature hierarchy is universal (not the features or the feature order) (Dresher 2018); hence, contrastive hierarchy models like PR can be utilized to various L2 or L3 acquisition contexts (e.g., Natvig 2017;Kwon 2021;Archibald 2022a;2022b). This study has demonstrated how PR can be applied to Mandarin and English vowels and accounts for Mandarin learners' perceptual confusions.…”

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How L1-Chinese L2-English learners perceive English front vowels: A phonological account

Kwon

Starr

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Second language acquisition involves readjusting features from one’s L1 onto counterparts in the L2. Learners often face difficulty during this process due to the presence of an already firmly rooted L1 grammar. Furthermore, a learner’s L1 serves to constrain sensitivity to non-native contrasts during the acquisition process. If a learner’s L2 grammar lacks the phonological feature that can differentiate a non-native contrast, then that learner may experience persistent difficulties in representing the L2 sounds as a result. Mandarin learners of English as a second language have to contend with a substantially expanded L2 vowel inventory in the early stages of acquisition, grappling with the addition of pronounced features less prevalent in their L1. In an attempt to account for front vowel acquisition difficulties and possible routes to progress for L1- Mandarin L2-English using a direct transfer approach, this work follows the Toronto School of contrastive phonology which holds that phonological representation is determined primarily through the ordering of contrastive features. We present data from recent phonetic research that catalogues Mandarin learners’ progress in incorporating English front vowels while, at the same time, examining the underlying phonological processes. This serves as the basis for a preliminary model of contrastive hierarchy in language acquisition using elements of a feature geometry paradigm. The model provides a theoretical roadmap showing that, as Mandarin learners progress and gradually incorporate English front vowels into their L2 repository, the learner’s L2 hierarchy evolves through successive stages as contrasts are perceived and categorized.

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Section: A Phonological Window Into L2 Perceptionmentioning

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How L1-Chinese L2-English learners perceive English front vowels: A phonological account

Kwon

Starr

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…In general, the process of adaptation is based on similarity and how categories can be distinguished from one another by L1 native speakers (i.e., borrowers). Nonetheless, the issue of how adaptation of loanwords is triggered by the requirements of conformity to the recipient language system is a matter of substantial research on a number of various languages in the literature (e.g., Silverman, 1992;Davis, 1994;Yip, 2002;Haunz, 2004;LaCharité and Paradis, 2005;Davis and Cho, 2006;Miao, 2006;Kenstowicz, 2007;Lee, 2009;Kang, 2011;Paradis and LaCharité, 2011;Tu, 2013;Guba, 2016;Natvig, 2017;Boberg, 2020;Alahmari, 2021). In order to account for adaptation in the study of loanwords, phonologists and phoneticians have proposed different models that can be generally classified into two major approaches: the phonological approach and the phonetic approach.…”

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Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

Alahmari¹

2022

IJAES

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This paper investigates vowel adaptation in English-based loanwords by a group of Saudi Arabic speakers, concentrating exclusively on shared vowels between the two languages. It examines 5 long vowels shared by the two vowel systems in terms of vowel quality and vowel duration in loanword productions by 22 participants and checks them against the properties of the same vowels in native words. To this end, the study performs an acoustic analysis of 660 tokens (loan and native vowel sounds) through Praat to measure the first two formants (F1: vowel height and F2: vowel advancement) of each vowel sound at two temporal points of time (T1: the vowel onset and T2: the peak of the vowel) as well as a durational analysis to examine vowel length. It reports that measurements of the first two formants of vowels in native words appear to be stable during the two temporal points while values of the same vowel sounds occurring in loanwords are fluctuating from T1 to T2 and that durational differences exist between loanword vowels in comparison with vowels of native words in such a way that vowels in native words are longer in duration than the same vowels appearing in loanwords.

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2021

The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

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A Model of Underspecified Recognition for Phonological Integration: English Loan Vowels in American Norwegian

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

How L1-Chinese L2-English learners perceive English front vowels: A phonological account

How L1-Chinese L2-English learners perceive English front vowels: A phonological account

Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

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