Cross-Language Phonetic Interference: Arabic to English.

Flege, James Emil; Port, Robert

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ERIC Number: EJ248803

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Publication Date: 1981-Apr

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Cross-Language Phonetic Interference: Arabic to English.

Flege, James Emil; Port, Robert

Language and Speech, v24 n2 p125-46 Apr 1981

Compares phonetic implementation of the stop-voicing contrast produced in Arabic by Saudi Arabians and by both Americans and Saudis in English. Saudis used temporal aspects of voicing in Arabic while speaking English. This caused few communication problems, with the exception of the phoneme (p), which has no Arabic counterpart. (Author/PJM)

Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Interference (Language), Phonemes, Phonology, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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