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The effects of age of second language learning on the production of English vowels
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This study examined the English vowel productions of 240 native speakers of Italian who had arrived in Canada at ages ranging from 2 to 23 years and 24 native English speakers from the same community. The productions of 11 vowels were rated for degree of foreign accent by 10 listeners. An increase in perceived accentedness as a function of increasing age of arrival was observed on every vowel. Not one of the vowels was observed to be produced in a consistently native-like manner by the latest-arriving learners, even though they had been living in Canada for an average of 32 years. However, high intelligibility (percent correct identification) scores were obtained for the same set of productions. This was true even for English vowels that have no counterpart in Italian.
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Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels
Peterson, G. E., & Barney, H. L. (1952) · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · doi:10.1121/1.1906875 · Cited by 2,837 · cited 3×
“Work by Rochet (1995), for example, indicated that speakers of Portuguese tended to perceive and produce French [y] more often as an [i]-like vowel than as [u], while speakers of English tended to do the reverse.”
BackgroundFlege, J. E. (1987) · Journal of Phonetics · doi:10.1016/s0095-4470(19)30537-6 · Cited by 1,148
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THE ROBUSTNESS OF CRITICAL PERIOD EFFECTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
DeKeyser, R. M. (2000) · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · doi:10.1017/s0272263100004022 · Cited by 1,432
Age constraints on second-language acquisition
Flege, J. E., Yeni-Komshian, G. H., & Liu, S. (1999) · Journal of Memory and Language · doi:10.1006/jmla.1999.2638 · Cited by 989
Self-citationACCENT, INTELLIGIBILITY, AND COMPREHENSIBILITY: Evidence from Four L1s
Derwing, T. M., & Munro, M. J. (1997) · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · doi:10.1017/s0272263197001010 · Cited by 892
Self-citationEffects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception of English vowels
Flege, J. E., Bohn, O.-S., & Jang, S. (1997) · Journal of Phonetics · doi:10.1006/jpho.1997.0052 · Cited by 890
Self-citationMunro, M. J., & Derwing, T. M. (1995) · Language and Speech · doi:10.1177/002383099503800305 · Cited by 629
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- Authors
- Munro, M. J., Flege, J. E., & Mackay, I. R. A.
- Venue
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1996-07
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 313-334
- ISSN
- 0142-7164 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1817
- OpenAlex
- W2061368037
- Cited by
- 213
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 7.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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