Effect of Second Language Phonetic Learning on First Language Vowels : A Study of Mandarin-English Bilinguals

ISBN-13: 9783639127072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str.

Haisheng Jiang

Opis

It has been well documented that the first language(L1) phonetic system influences the second language(L2) phonetic system. However, the influence of theL2 phonetic system upon the L1 phonetic system hasnot been studied equally well. This book aims atcontributing to this less well-studied field byexamining the effect of L2 phonetic learning on L1vowel production among a group of Mandarin-Englishbilinguals. The study shows that L2 English learningled to some Mandarin-English bilinguals carrying someEnglish characteristics in their L1 Mandarin vowelproduction. The information in this book will beuseful to people who are interested in secondlanguage speech learning.

O autorze

Haisheng Jiang is Lecturer in Linguistics at University of
Aberdeen. He received his PhD from Linguistics Department, Simon
Fraser University of Canada.