Phonetic imitation of t-glottaling by Czech speakers of English
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2022Published in
Linguistica PragensiaVolume / Issue
32 (1)ISBN / ISSN
ISSN: 0862-8432Metadata
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This publication has a published version with DOI 10.14712/18059635.2022.1.8
Abstract
The paper focuses on the ability of Czech speakers to explicitly imitate native English realizations of the phoneme /t/ as [?] (t-glottaling). In Czech, glottalization occurs as a boundary signal of word-initial vocalic onsets. We hypothesize that this allows for a better imitative performance in the inter-vocalic context as compared to non-prevocalic contexts. However, an alternative hypothesis based on language-external facts (frequency in the learners' English input) predicts the opposite pattern. Our experiment involves 30 participants in a shadowing task. In addition to words with /t/, words with /k/ are examined to establish if speakers can generalize to a phonologically similar category to which they have not been exposed. Speakers adapted their pronunciation arter exposure to t-glot-taling to some degree. Our hypothesis was confirmed for the shadowing task, while the alternative language-external hypothesis was confirmed for the post-test task, suggesting a different pattern of performance in terms of imitation versus learning.
Keywords
adaptation, glottalization, glottal stop, t-glottaling, phonetic imitation
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