TY - CHAP
T1 - An acoustic analysis of English vowels produced by speakers of seven different native-language backgrounds
AU - van Heuven, Vincent J
AU - Gooskens, Charlotte S
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We measured F1, F2 and duration of ten English monophthongs produced by American native speakers and by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian and Chinese L2 speakers. We hypothesized that (i) L2 speakers would approximate the English vowels more closely as the phonological distance between the L2 and English is smaller, and (ii) English vowels of L2 speaker groups will be more similar as the L2s are closer to one another. Comparison of acoustic vowel diagrams and Linear Discriminant Analyses (LDA) confirm the hypotheses, with one exception: Dutch speakers deviate more from L1 English than the Scandinavian groups. he Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit was convincingly simulated by the LDA
AB - We measured F1, F2 and duration of ten English monophthongs produced by American native speakers and by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian and Chinese L2 speakers. We hypothesized that (i) L2 speakers would approximate the English vowels more closely as the phonological distance between the L2 and English is smaller, and (ii) English vowels of L2 speaker groups will be more similar as the L2s are closer to one another. Comparison of acoustic vowel diagrams and Linear Discriminant Analyses (LDA) confirm the hypotheses, with one exception: Dutch speakers deviate more from L1 English than the Scandinavian groups. he Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit was convincingly simulated by the LDA
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781848902305
T3 - Tributes
SP - 137
EP - 147
BT - From Semantics to Dialectometry: Festschrift in honor of John Nerbonne
A2 - Wieling, Martijn
A2 - Kroon, Martin
A2 - van Noord, Gerardus
A2 - Bouma, Gosse
PB - College Publications
CY - London, United Kingdom
ER -