Due to the phonetic differences between the Arabic and the English language, Arab ESL learners often experience difficulty in pronouncing English vowels. The vowel quantity and the vowel quality are the two phonetic parameters through which vowels are described. The vowel quantity refers to the duration of the phonetic segment that is symptomatic of phonetic identity. On the other hand, the vowel quality means the knowing the precise way of articulating a vowel, which includes the shape of lips, position of the tongue in the vocal tract or the nasalization of vowels. Every vowel has its own pattern of speaking.
The Arabic language system consists of 6 vowels whereas the English vowel system has 12 vowels. The main reason why Arab ESL learners tend to mispronounce vowels is because of this phonological difference. Moreover, the extended vowel pattern system of English shows a contrast between the lax short vowels and the tense long vowels; on the other hand, the vowel patterns of the Arabic language shows a contrast between the short vowels and long vowels. Moreover, the difference between English and Arabic vowel system is not only dependant on its size but also on the quality of the vowels. Another reason why Arab ESL learners face problems with English vowels is because of the nature of the vowel systems – Arabic language has a centrifugal vowel system while the English language has a centripetal vowel system, which means that the English vowels have the tendency to move at the center of the vowel space which does not happen with centrifugal vowel systems like Arabic, Spanish and Russian languages. Thus, it is due to the distinct vowel quality, quantity, centrifugal and centripetal differences those Arab ESL learners’ fact pro...
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This chapter focused mainly on misconceptions and attempting to clarify those misconceptions about accents. In the opinion of linguists, accent is a difficult word to define. This is due to the fact that language has variation therefore when it comes to a person having an accent or not, there is no true technical distinction because every person has different phonological aspects to their way of speaking. However, when forced to define this word, it is described as “a way of speaking” (Lippi-Green, 2012, p.44). Although Lippi- Green identified the difficulty linguists have in distinguishing between accent, dialect, and another language entirely, they were able to construct a loose way of distinguishing. Lippi- Green states that an accent can be determined by difference in phonological features alone, dialect can be determined by difference in syntax, lexicon, and semantics alone, and when all of these aspects are different from the original language it is considered another language entirely (Lippi-Green, 2012).
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There are three main theories of child language acquisition; Cognitive Theory, Imitation and Positive Reinforcement, and Innateness of Certain Linguistic Features (Linguistics 201). All three theories offer a substantial amount of proof and experiments, but none of them have been proven entirely correct. The search for how children acquire their native language in such a short period of time has been studied for many centuries. In a changing world, it is difficult to pinpoint any definite specifics of language because of the diversity and modification throughout thousands of millions of years.
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All languages have vast variety of speech sound. Phonology have essentials terms in which each of them show the difference between how phonology is differ than phonetics as its not responsible for how to articulate. These phonological terms known as : phoneme , allophone, clear & dark l , syllabic l, minimal pairs , assimilation ,linking r , intrusive r, aspiration , consonant structure & syllable structure. A phoneme is a meaningful sound which shows the difference between two sounds which can change the meaning of word like : . Although allophones are the variation of same sound but they don’t change the meaning of it like < pin / spin >. However