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ERIC Number: EJ1230908
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Sep
Pages: 10
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ISSN: EISSN-1533-242X
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The Effects of Consonant Phonemes' Position across the Word on Pronunciation Errors: An Empirical Study of Turkish EFL Learners
Mahzoun, Zinat; Han, Turgay
Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, v19 n2 p48-57 Sep 2019
Previous research on pronunciation errors observed that the most frequently mispronounced English phonemes are word-initial consonants. The findings of the current study invalidate those observations by presenting the data analysis of 40 Turkish EFL learners' speech samples, which illustrates that segmental speech errors are position-independent for the target phonemes of the research (/?/, /ð/, /w/, /d/, /d[subscript 3/). The target phonemes were selected from the consonants which are caused by orthographic interference. The data were obtained through 40 sentences which contained 3 sets of each phoneme in initial, medial and final positions. The participants were asked to read the sentences aloud while being audio-recorded in a quiet environment. Analysis of the speech was performed by two native English-speaking raters. Although this was a small-scale study, its findings will pave the way for next studies. Further research is required to confirm the generalizability of the findings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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