Formant frequencies of British English vowels produced by native speakers of Farsi

Gordon Hunter , Hanna Kebede

In this paper, we discuss issues relating to phoneme (in particular, vowel) production in a subject’s second language, focusing on the vowel systems of Standard Southern British English (SSBE) and Farsi (Persian). We describe a study wherein first language Farsi speakers who were experienced second language speakers of SSBE were recorded attempting to produce SSBE vowels in words within a standard carrier phrase. The first and second formants of the vowels so produced were measured, and the results compared with measurements of SSBE and Farsi vowels produced by first language(L1) speakers of each from previous studies.

Mots clés: vowel formants; Standard Southern British English (SSBE); second language (L2); Farsi

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Gordon Hunter, Hanna Kebede. Formant frequencies of British English vowels produced by native speakers of Farsi. Acoustics 2012, Apr 2012, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-00810580⟩