Acoustic-orthographic interface in L2 phonology by L1 Cypriot-Greek speakers
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0026/000441Keywords:
L2 phonology, perception, vowels, consonants, acoustic-orthographic interfaceAbstract
The present study investigated the acoustic-orthographic interface in the phonology of L2 English by L1 Cypriot-Greek (CG) speakers. Seventy L1 CG undergraduate students completed a written dictation task, which examined how contrastive English vowels and consonants on word-level are perceived by CG and how the use of L2 affects these perceptions based on the different phoneme inventories and orthographies of CG and English. The findings suggest that there is an effect of L1 CG phonological and orthographic systems on L2 English vowel and consonant sound perception and written production.
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