Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals
This paper presents the results of a study conducted to investigate the representation of English vowels among Malay-English bilingual speakers. The study focused on five front vowels of English. There is a tense-lax contrast in high- and mid-vowels in English (Davenport and Hannahs, 2005; Fromkin,...
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| description | This paper presents the results of a study conducted to investigate the representation of English vowels among Malay-English bilingual speakers. The study focused on five front vowels of English. There is a tense-lax contrast in high- and mid-vowels in English (Davenport and Hannahs, 2005; Fromkin, Rodman and Hyams, 2003), but this contrast does not exist anywhere in Malay (Nik Safiah et al., 2008). Thus, a forced choice identification task is constructed with PRAAT (Boersma and Weenick, 2009). Stimuli for the experiment were synthesized using the AT&T text-to-speech demo programme available from AT&T Labs. The values of the first and second formants of the vowels were checked to make sure that they were within the range given in the literature. Fifty-two Malay-English bilingual undergraduates participated in this study. The results showed that Malay-English bilinguals have only three categories of contrast for the front vowels. These results show that the vowel representation of the second language in Malay-English bilinguals is similar to the representation of vowels in the first language. |
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| spelling | upm-165212015-10-21T02:56:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16521/ Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals Yap, Ngee Thai Wong, Bee Eng Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran This paper presents the results of a study conducted to investigate the representation of English vowels among Malay-English bilingual speakers. The study focused on five front vowels of English. There is a tense-lax contrast in high- and mid-vowels in English (Davenport and Hannahs, 2005; Fromkin, Rodman and Hyams, 2003), but this contrast does not exist anywhere in Malay (Nik Safiah et al., 2008). Thus, a forced choice identification task is constructed with PRAAT (Boersma and Weenick, 2009). Stimuli for the experiment were synthesized using the AT&T text-to-speech demo programme available from AT&T Labs. The values of the first and second formants of the vowels were checked to make sure that they were within the range given in the literature. Fifty-two Malay-English bilingual undergraduates participated in this study. The results showed that Malay-English bilinguals have only three categories of contrast for the front vowels. These results show that the vowel representation of the second language in Malay-English bilinguals is similar to the representation of vowels in the first language. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16521/1/73.Representation%20of%20English%20Front%20Vowels%20by%20Malay-English%20Bilinguals.pdf Yap, Ngee Thai and Wong, Bee Eng and Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran (2010) Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 18 (2). pp. 379-389. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2018%20(2)%20Sep.%202010/19%20Pg%20379-389.pdf English language - Vowels. English language - Vowels - Study and teaching. English |
| spellingShingle | English language - Vowels. English language - Vowels - Study and teaching. Yap, Ngee Thai Wong, Bee Eng Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals |
| title | Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals |
| title_full | Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals |
| title_fullStr | Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals |
| title_short | Representation of English front vowels by Malay-English bilinguals |
| title_sort | representation of english front vowels by malay-english bilinguals |
| topic | English language - Vowels. English language - Vowels - Study and teaching. |
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