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The Production of the Sequence -UI- by Francophone Learners of English
Jean-Paul Kouega
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2017.04.009
University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
This paper considers the renderings of the sequence -UI- by Cameroonian, Gabonese, and native French users learning English with the view to finding out whether French users speaking different L1s pronounce this sequence in different or similar ways. The data were recordings of items containing -UI- and the contrastive method of analysis was used. It was found that this sequence is rendered in two ways by the learners. Besides, different L2 French-speaking learners tend to pronounce it in the same ways and so do L2 and L1 French-speaking learners. It can therefore be hypothesised that Francophone speakers tend to draw more from French when they speak English than from their respective L1s.
L3 English learner, France, Cameroon, Gabon, consonant, vowel
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