Original scientific paper
Interference of Croatian in the Pronunciation of the Twelve Most Frequent RP Consonants
Višnja Josipović
Abstract
This paper presents the results of an experiment carried out to point to some hitherto unexplored aspects of interference between Croatian or Serbian and English. In particular, the research was concerned with the pronunciation of the twelve most frequent RP Consonants on the part of speakers of the observed variety of Croatian or Serbian. Three groups of errors have been noticed. The first group includes errors which logically resu t from the basic differences between the two phonological and phonetic inventoríes concerned. The second, a particularly interesting group, comprises some unexpected pronunciation errors, neglected in existing contrastive phonological and phonetic literature. The most notable among them is an excessive final devoicing of English obstruents. Finally, an important role in the creation of the overall impression of foreign accent is played by errors consisting of hypercorrect pronunciation of the target-language consonants.
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121616
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Publication date:
26.10.1987.
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