Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study

Sönning, Lukas

dc.contributor.author	Sönning, Lukas	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-12T12:37:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-12T12:37:58Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06-26	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9694
dc.description.abstract	This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure. The results indicate that duration of unstressed vowels is similar in the two groups, though there is some variation depending on the phonetic context. In terms of formant structure, learners produce slightly higher F1 and considerably lower F2, the difference in F2 being statistically significant for each learner. Formant values varied as a function of context and orthographic representation of the vowel.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;12	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	vowel reduction	en
dc.subject	acoustic analysis	en
dc.subject	SLA	en
dc.subject	L1 German	en
dc.subject	L2 English	en
dc.title	Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study	en
dc.page.number	163-173	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Bamberg	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2478/rela-2014-0001	en

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