Production of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English

Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated, studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great disadvantage when it comes to learning the sounds of a foreign language because age of onset has been shown to correlate negativel...

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Autor principal:	Sypiańska Jolanta
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	senior l2 learners foreign language learning l1 drift l2 phonetics and phonology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b3ab070c02ec4aff832583e9d4b789912021-12-05T14:11:00ZProduction of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English2300-996910.1515/opli-2021-0016https://doaj.org/article/b3ab070c02ec4aff832583e9d4b789912021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2021-0016https://doaj.org/toc/2300-9969Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated, studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great disadvantage when it comes to learning the sounds of a foreign language because age of onset has been shown to correlate negatively with ultimate attainment especially for phonology (Piske et al. 2001). However, this is all the more reason to attempt a better understanding of the mechanisms of senior. This paper offers an attempt at shedding light on how senior learners with an age of L2 onset above 60 produce voiced and voiceless L2 word-initial stops. Twenty L1 Polish senior learners of English were asked to read a list of words containing word-initial voiced and voiceless plosives in their L2 English at A2+/B1 level according to CEFR. The results show that the senior Polish learners of English produce an in-between category for the English stops (with VOT longer than for Polish, but shorter than native English). The senior learners also experienced L1 drift, but mostly in the voiceless L1 Polish stops.Sypiańska JolantaDe Gruyterarticlesenior l2 learnersforeign language learningl1 driftl2 phonetics and phonologyPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENOpen Linguistics, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 316-330 (2021)
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description	Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated, studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great disadvantage when it comes to learning the sounds of a foreign language because age of onset has been shown to correlate negatively with ultimate attainment especially for phonology (Piske et al. 2001). However, this is all the more reason to attempt a better understanding of the mechanisms of senior. This paper offers an attempt at shedding light on how senior learners with an age of L2 onset above 60 produce voiced and voiceless L2 word-initial stops. Twenty L1 Polish senior learners of English were asked to read a list of words containing word-initial voiced and voiceless plosives in their L2 English at A2+/B1 level according to CEFR. The results show that the senior Polish learners of English produce an in-between category for the English stops (with VOT longer than for Polish, but shorter than native English). The senior learners also experienced L1 drift, but mostly in the voiceless L1 Polish stops.
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title_short	Production of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English
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Production of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English

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