The Perception of Selected Danish Vowels by Native Speakers of British English

Christian Jensen; Inger M. Mees

The Perception of Selected Danish Vowels by Native Speakers of British English

Christian Jensen, Inger M. Mees

University of Copenhagen

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Abstract

The article presents a study which investigates the effects of direct transfers of the four Danish vowels into English. The study employs a perception experiment and a forced-choice word identification experiment, in which the Danish words were presented to native English listeners. Results showed the spelling-sound relationship and assimilation of the foreign into native category sound which can lead to the use of an unmodified native language sound production in the foreign language.

Original language	English
Journal	I R A L. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
Volume	50
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	87-100
ISSN	0019-042X
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Language Transfer
Vowels
Native Language
Assimilation
Phonology
English Language

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