Original scientific paper
The Role of Underlying Filters in the Study of Phonological Interference
Višnja Josipović
Abstract
Interference of Croatian in the pronunciation of English is looked at in the light of Filter Theory, proposed by Calabrese (1988). It is arguedthat the notions of FilterTheoiy are useful in accounting for several phenomena observed in English spoken with a Croatian accent.
The difficulties that Croatian speakers have in realizing such English phonemes as ml, /v/, /æ/, / /,/ / and the so-called centring diphthongs are accounted for by means of the Filter Theory notions of fission and delinking. It is also argued that in addition to the existing notions of Filter Theory, the study of foreign accent also requires the introduction of some syntagmatic restrictions on feature cooccurrence, as well as the repair strategy of fusion.
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121434
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Publication date:
5.12.1991.
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