Segmental error patterns in Finnish-accented English.

Since vowel production is more gradient than consonant production, we divided the 129 non-English vowel productions into near misses, such as raising or lowering of an English vowel, and far off productions, such as front rounded vowels. It occupies a space between Finnish /æ, e, ø/, and errors from both groups saw participants fronting, raising, or lowering this English vowel in the absence of one clear Finnish vowel on which to map this phonetic category. Vowel errors and consonant errors were subcategorized according to classes of vowels and consonants as described in section 2.4. Keywords: foreign accent; English; Finnish learners; segmental errors; Zweitsprachakzent; Finnische Lerner; Segmentale Fehler; acento extranjero; inglés; estudiantes finlandeses; errores segmentales; fremmed accent; engelsk; finske lørnere; segmentelle udtalefejl EN foreign accent English Finnish learners segmental errors DE Zweitsprachakzent Finnische Lerner Segmentale Fehler ES acento extranjero inglés estudiantes finlandeses errores segmentales DA fremmed accent engelsk finske lørnere segmentelle udtalefejl 109 141 33 03/11/22 20220301 NES 220301 1 Introduction When speaking a foreign language (L2), one's pronunciation may exhibit a foreign accent. However, despite this shortcoming, our study contributes valuable insight into segmental aspects of Finnish-accented English, as it is the first study to relate segmental errors to foreign accent for L1 Finnish speakers of English. [Extracted from the article]