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Acoustic Investigation Of Production Of Clusters By Saudi Second Language Learners Of English, Hussain Almalki
Acoustic Investigation Of Production Of Clusters By Saudi Second Language Learners Of English, Hussain Almalki
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Production errors made by second language (L2) learners of English have been attributed to markedness, L1 transfer or input frequency (cf. Major, 2001; Edwards & Zampini, 2008; Baptista, Rauber, & Watkins, 2009). This thesis examines the production of 17 English initial consonant clusters (e.g., /pr/ in “pray”) in a markedness relationship, whereby clusters with greater sonority distance between the first and second consonants are unmarked and clusters with smaller sonority distance between the first and second consonants are marked, by two groups of Saudi Arabian L2 English learners. It also explores the effect of input frequency and L1 transfer. Participants …