Variability in L2 Vowel Production: Different Elicitation Methods Affect Individual Speakers Differently.

ABSTRACT: Elicitation methods are known to influence second language speech production. For teachers and language assessors, awareness of such effects is essential to accurate interpretations of testing outcomes. For speech researchers, understanding why one method gives better performance than another may yield insights into how second-language phonological knowledge is acquired, stored, and retrieved. Given these concerns, this investigation compared L2 vowel intelligibility on two elicitation tasks and determined the degree to which differences generalized across vowels, vowels in context, lexical items, and individual speakers. The dependent variable was the intelligibility of Cantonese speakers' productions of English /i I u ℧/ in varying phonetic environments. In a picture-naming task, the spe

SUBMITTER: Munro MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9326214 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature