Building bridges between audition and articulation? : perception of Dutch [e] and [ɛ͜i] by Polish native speakers and its influence on pronunciation

Vol.33,No.2(2019)

Zuzanna Czerwonka-Wajda

https://doi.org/10.5817/BBGN2019-2-10

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/142851

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Abstract
The paper presents the results of a pilot study on audition of Dutch tense vowel [e] and diphthong [ɛ͜i] by Polish native speakers. It was hypothesized that Polish native speakers should generally fail to distinguish those sounds, as they lie acoustically close to each other (especially those produced by speakers of Dutch form the Netherlands) and moreover they are absent from Polish phonetic system. Instead the experiment has shown that Polish native speakers are almost as good in differentiating of isolated Dutch [e] and [ɛ͜i] as the native speakers of Dutch. Further experiments are needed to examine if equally good results can be achieved with [e] and [ɛ͜i] in the word context.

Keywords:
speech chain; Dutch; tense vowels; audition; articulation

Pages:
109–120
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