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Dalola, Amanda; Bullock, Barbara E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
The data from this study investigate phrase-final vowel devoicing in Metropolitan French among L1 and L2 speakers, in terms of number of times a speaker devoices a phrase-final high vowel and percentage of the vowel that is devoiced. The goal is to assess whether experienced L2 speakers use style-based variation in response to the same factors as…
Descriptors: French, Vowels, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Trofimovich, Pavel; Gatbonton, Elizabeth; Segalowitz, Norman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
This study investigates whether second language (L2) phonological learning can be characterized as a gradual and systematically patterned replacement of nonnative segments by native segments in learners' speech, conforming to a two-stage implicational scale. We adopt a dynamic approach to language variation based on Gatbonton's (1975, 1978)…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonetics, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries