Visible Vowels as a Tool for the Study of Language Transfer

In this paper, we demonstrate the use of Visible Vowels to detect formant and durational differences between L2 and L1 speakers. We used a dataset that contains vowel measures from L1 speakers of French and from L2 learners of French, with Italian, Spanish and English as L1. We found that vowels tha...

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Main Authors: Wilbert Heeringa, Hans Van de Velde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-01-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/35