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Foreign Accents

Foreign Accents. Three primary reasons for non-native pronunciations. 1. A sound in the target language that does not exist in the native language: [ Ө , ] in English thin, thick   them, these. These sounds does not exist in many languages   French speaker: These  With

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Foreign Accents

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  1. Foreign Accents

  2. Three primary reasons for non-native pronunciations

  3. 1. A sound in the target language that does not exist in the native language: • [ Ө , ] in English thin, thick •   them, these

  4. These sounds does not exist in many languages   French speaker: These  With  Thick  Brother  Things Three

  5. 2. The same sounds exist in both languages but the patterns they follow are different

  6. Final stop devoicing in Turkish: Please [plis] Cheese [cis]

  7. Aspiration in Nepali and English and Thai Nepali: parsi “day after tomorrow” English speaker pharsi “pumpkin”

  8. 3. The sequences of sounds that are admitted in the two languages are different

  9. Spanish has no [s] + [stop] combinations at the beginning of a syllable   scoop [εskup]   snake [εsnek]   spoons [εspuns]

  10. What happens if the syllable structure of two languages differ and one language borrows a word from another language? baseball [besb l]   Japanese [besuboru] Inserts a vowel  sprite [sprajt] Korean [sipiraiti]

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