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The pronunciation of voiced obstruents in L2 French: A preliminary study of Swiss German learners

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2012
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Schmid, S. (2012). The pronunciation of voiced obstruents in L2 French: A preliminary study of Swiss German learners. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 48(4), 627–659. https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2012-0028

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The present study examines how Swiss German learners cope with the contrast between voiced and unvoiced obstruents in L2 French. The feature [±voice]) is not exploited in Swiss German dialects, where pairs of obstruents sharing the same place and manner of articulation are basically differentiated in terms of longer or shorter duration (i.e., the feature [±tense]). Therefore, we expect that Swiss German learners of French would assimilate the non-native feature [±voice] to the native [±tense] contrast, due to the great similarity and

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48

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4

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627

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659

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Obstruents, voicing, second language speech, French, Swiss German

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English

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2012-01

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2014-02-11

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Nakom Adam Mickiewicz University

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0137-2459

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282 since deposited on 2014-02-11
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228 since deposited on 2014-02-11
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Schmid, S. (2012). The pronunciation of voiced obstruents in L2 French: A preliminary study of Swiss German learners. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 48(4), 627–659. https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2012-0028

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