Investigating the Phonetic CLI on Swahili TLA The acquisition of nasal plosive by L1 Mandarin speakers learning English (L2) and Swahili (L3)

Swahili is an increasingly important language in China with its utility the Belt and Road Initiative. A number of previous studies third acquisition (TLA) applied concept crosslinguistic influence (CLI), but there are scant focusing on possible phonetic CLI Swahili. The present study investigates from Mandarin as L1 English L2 L3 Participants were 35 learners possessing target sequence. In this study, a 26-item questionnaire used to collect data. main findings research include nasal plosive consonants blocked by for different reasons such source deficiency negative transfer similar consonant clusters English. addition, results show that greatly caused “nasal stops+plosive” clusters. can fill gap TLA field deeper understanding acquiring consonants.