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During second language acquisition, is it common for the speech organs to get tired by speaking the second language?
I am a non-native speaker of English (I'd rather not say what my native language is). I have noticed that my speech organs (tongue, lips, jaws and also the palate but I'm not so sure if it's the ...
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English speakers inserting R in French words
I teach French to people from various background and first languages, but one thing that most English speakers do (even very proficient ones sometimes) is adding R sounds in words. Saying 'droi' for &...
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Is it possible to speak like a native speaker of English by mastering the phonology?
I know some professors of phonetics teach phonetics(in a country like India) in a laboratory almost similar to that of the native speakers.But when they come out of the class their pronunciation does ...
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Are there resources that exploit phones of English, to teach how to phonate all IPA phones?
Preface: I use 'phonate' to mean: `to produce or to utter a phone'.
After 5 years, I finally learned to phonate the Alveolar Trill [r], from an explanation that cleverly exploited English phonology ...
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Are there marked/"hard" phonemes that are acquired very late or never by a substantial number of speakers?
Marked phonemes are those that require more effort during articulation or are "harder" to articulate. For example, the interdental fricatives /θ/ and /ð/ are considered to be marked. Marked phonemes ...
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Common problems in second language pronunciation
Transfer of some phonetic/phonological features from the first language to a second language is common in second language acquisition. For example, aspiration is not phonemic in English. Voiceless ...
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Theories on L1 transfer/interference in L2 pronunciation/phonetics/phonology
What theories explain the transfer of phonetic and phonological features from the first language to a second or foreign language?
How do these theories differ from each other?
Such theories should ...
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What are the differences between the French and English [i] and how does it affect the perception?
I'm rephrasing my question after (very helpful) comments to my initial version:
What are the differences between the [i] produced by French speakers (in French) and English speakers (in English)?
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