СПЕКТРАЛНЕ ОДЛИКЕ НЕМАТЕРЊИХ МОНОФТОНГА У СРПСКО-ЕНГЛЕСКОМ МЕЂУЈЕЗИЧКОМ СИСТЕМУ
SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF L2 MONOPHTHONGS IN SERBIAN-ENGLISH INTERLANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the production of American monophthongs /ɪ, i, ʊ, u, ɛ, е, о, æ, ʌ, ɔ, ɝ, ɑ/ in the Interlanguage of thirty speakers of English as a foreign language. The primary purpose of this study was to observe whether native speakers of Serbian can distinguish between the neighbouring vowels in the vowel space area. Monosyllabic words illustrating the vowels in question were pronounced in a carrier sentence task. Formant measurements (F1 and F2) were normalized and compared for neighbouring lax and tense vowels. The obtained results indicate that our subjects’ vowels are, in fact, distinguished from one another by their frequency values. However, the vowel quality is not quite adequate.

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