Essays about: "Pre-aspiration"

Found 1 essay containing the word Pre-aspiration.

  1. 1. Pre-aspiration and Plosives in Icelandic English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Pétur Már Sigurjónsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Pre-aspiration; Voice Onset Time VOT ; Acoustic Phonetics; English as a Foreign Language EFL ; Second Language Acquisition SLA ;

    Abstract : For this study, two groups of native Icelandic speakers were compared in terms of the acoustic properties of their English pronunciation of two phonetic phenomena, plosives and pre-aspiration. In English, plosives with the same manner and place of articulation are distinguished by means of a voicing contrast, whereas in Icelandic, plosives are distinguished by means of an aspiration contrast. READ MORE