Laryngeal systems in Dutch, English and German : a contrastive-phonological study on second and third language acquisition
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- Ellen Simon (UGent) and Torsten Leuschner (UGent)
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- Although Dutch, English and German all have a phonological contrast between voiced and voiceless plosives, they differ in the way these stops are realized: while English and German contrast voiceless aspirated with phonetically voiceless stops, Dutch has a contrast between voiceless unaspirated and prevoiced stops. This study compares these three laryngeal stop systems and examines the acquisition of the English and German systems by a group of native speakers of Dutch. The analysis reveals that both trained and untrained participants transferred prevoicing from Dutch into English and German, but acquired aspiration and thus showed a ‘mixed’ laryngeal system in both their L2 (English) and their L3 (German). Since even untrained participants produced voiceless stops in the target Voice Onset Time range, pronunciation training has only a moderate effect.
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- VOICE ONSET TIME, CROSS-LANGUAGE, INITIAL STOPS, SPEAKERS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1090899
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- Simon, Ellen, and Torsten Leuschner. “Laryngeal Systems in Dutch, English and German : A Contrastive-Phonological Study on Second and Third Language Acquisition.” JOURNAL OF GERMANIC LINGUISTICS, edited by Roel Vismans et al., vol. 22, no. 4, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 403–24, doi:10.1017/S1470542710000127.
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- Simon, E., & Leuschner, T. (2010). Laryngeal systems in Dutch, English and German : a contrastive-phonological study on second and third language acquisition. JOURNAL OF GERMANIC LINGUISTICS, 22(4), 403–424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542710000127
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- Simon, Ellen, and Torsten Leuschner. 2010. “Laryngeal Systems in Dutch, English and German : A Contrastive-Phonological Study on Second and Third Language Acquisition.” Edited by Roel Vismans, Matthias Hüning, and Fred Weerman. JOURNAL OF GERMANIC LINGUISTICS 22 (4): 403–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542710000127.
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- Simon, Ellen, and Torsten Leuschner. 2010. “Laryngeal Systems in Dutch, English and German : A Contrastive-Phonological Study on Second and Third Language Acquisition.” Ed by. Roel Vismans, Matthias Hüning, and Fred Weerman. JOURNAL OF GERMANIC LINGUISTICS 22 (4): 403–424. doi:10.1017/S1470542710000127.
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- 1.Simon E, Leuschner T. Laryngeal systems in Dutch, English and German : a contrastive-phonological study on second and third language acquisition. Vismans R, Hüning M, Weerman F, editors. JOURNAL OF GERMANIC LINGUISTICS. 2010;22(4):403–24.
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- [1]E. Simon and T. Leuschner, “Laryngeal systems in Dutch, English and German : a contrastive-phonological study on second and third language acquisition,” JOURNAL OF GERMANIC LINGUISTICS, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 403–424, 2010.
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