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The Impact of L2 Dialect on Learning French Vowels: Native English Speakers Learning Québécois and European French
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The Impact of L2 Dialect on Learning French Vowels: Native English Speakers Learning Québécois and European French
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The authors examine how a second language (L2) dialect affects how accurately the L2 is perceived and produced. Specifically, they examine differences between the production and perception of French vowels /i/, /y/, and /u/ by learners of either Québec French (QF) or European French (EF). These vowels differ across the two varieties, both acoustically and because of assibilation of /t-d/ before /i-y/ for QF versus EF. The authors found that as a result of these differences, QF has an additional acoustic cue with which to contrast /u/ and /i-y/. Anglophone learners of QF or EF were asked to identify and discriminate both QF and EF vowels and to produce the vowels in several phonetic contexts. The authors conclude that their results indicate that QF learners were more accurate at discrimination and identification of these vowels as produced by both QF and EF speakers and that L2 dialect exposure affects how well learners perceive and produce these French vowels.
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The Canadian Modern Language Review/La revue canadienne des langues vivantes
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Vol. 66
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no. 5
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711-738
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August 2010
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en
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Baker, Wendy, and Laura Catharine Smith. “The Impact of L2 Dialect on Learning French Vowels: Native English Speakers Learning Québécois and European French.” The Canadian Modern Language Review/La revue canadienne des langues vivantes Vol. 66, no. 5 (August 2010): 711–738.
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