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An Optimality Theoretic Account of Hungarian ESL Learners' Acquisition of /[epsilon]/ and /[ash]/
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Bunta, Ferenc; Major, Roy C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This paper provides an Optimality Theoretic account of how Hungarian learners of English acquire /[epsilon]/ and /[ash]/. It is hypothesized that as the learners' pronunciation becomes more nativelike, L1 transfer substitutions will diminish; non-transfer substitutions will be especially prevalent in the intermediate stages, and that all learners…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Pronunciation