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T1 The Grapho-Phonemics of the English Paroxytones and the fever/ever Dilemma.
A1 Otero del Real, Cristina
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Grapho-phonemics
K1 Paroxytones
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB The pronunciation of stressed English vowels is a complex issue for L2 speakers of the language. Vowel length contrasts are one of the core features that ensure intelligibility in the context of English as a Lingua Franca. We believe that the development of reliable grapho-phonemic rules could be useful for pronunciation teaching. Following a previous study from Cámara-Arenas, we look for the domain-specific rules that may help us account for the exceptions to the most irregular pronunciation rule. Pronunciation rule 3.2. is applicable to words like paper or human, predicting a pronunciation of the nominal version for the stressed vowel. We develop a larger set of regular words with the implementation of simple domain-specific rules applicable to each stressed vowel, bringing the regularity of this structure from 57% to 89%. Further polishing of these rules with a larger database and cleaner classification criteria is encouraged.
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39513
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39513
LA eng
DS UVaDOC
RD 30-abr-2024