A contrastive study of the EFL vowel system in native Spanish, French, German and Russian learners
This thesis focuses on the phonetic difficulties that learners of English as a foreign language will encounter. This research wants tó propose a new point of view; a different and wider angle on how to approach this issue. Instead of comparing only one or two languages to English, it will compare 4...
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| Format: | doctoral thesis |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repository: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/671141 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671141 http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14110.2021.152922 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Spectographic analysis English Spanish German French Linguistics Arts, Humanitats i Llengües 81 |
| Summary: | This thesis focuses on the phonetic difficulties that learners of English as a foreign language will encounter. This research wants tó propose a new point of view; a different and wider angle on how to approach this issue. Instead of comparing only one or two languages to English, it will compare 4 (Spanish, French, German and Russian) with similar or different characteristics based on vowel system and isochrony. The phonetic mistakes will then be analyzed through spectrography, which could help us better understand the nature of the problem. |
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