Linguistics, Vol. 20. No. 3., 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.17
Perception of General British monophthongs: The case of Slovene students of English as a foreign language
Andrej Stopar
orcid.org/0000-0001-9455-1820
; University of Ljubljana
Abstract
The paper presents an experimental study on the perception of the Gen-eral British monophthongs that was conducted in three stages in 2014–2018. The vowels observed are studied by (i) comparing the vowel sys-tems of General British and Slovene, and (ii) by conducting an experi-ment on their perception. The analysis focuses on the participants’ over-all performance, their most frequent misperceptions, and their progress over the course of one semester. The results indicate: that the previously observed production difficulties mirror perception difficulties; that the discriminative failures of FL vowels are not entirely predictable by com-paring vowel systems; that new sound contrasts are assimilated in differ-ent ways; and that the participants’ perception of foreign language pho-nemes can benefit from explicit instruction.
Keywords
perception of vowels; General British vowels; Slovene vow-els; foreign language phonetics; Slovene learners of EFL.
Hrčak ID:
231459
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2019.
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