Stress and vowel reduction by Korean Learners of English

Having a foreign accent is unavoidable for late second or language learners. The reason that physical changes in the brain influence learning variety of aspects new system (Flege, 1987; Patkowski, 1990). In other words, well-established first mediates acquisition language. mediation can be called cross-linguistics negative transfer (Sharwood Smith and Kellerma, 1986). terms suprasegmental pronunciation, vowel reduction occurring stress-timed languages such as English but lacking syllable-timed noteworthy to understand cause nonnative accents. present work aims explore patterns Korean accented English, with goal finding pronunciation issues learners might due effects from an acoustic-phonetic standpoint. speech samples native speakers Wildcat Corpus were used data analysis. qualities, duration ratios, formant values unstressed vowels produced by analyzed. Results show tend not reduce vowels, assimilate them into similar their inventory, produce full vowels.