English trap Vowel in Advanced Polish Learners: Variation and System Typology
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چکیده
The productions of English TRAP, DRESS and STRUT vowels are analysed acoustically in advanced Polish learners of English in an EFL setting. TRAP is shown to be less well-defined than the other two vowels, presumably due to partially fossilised “assimilation” to the corresponding Polish vowels /a/ and /ɛ/. There is considerable inter-speaker variation in the distribution of TRAP tokens, with four main configurations. Some weak lexical effects are visible, but their origin is unclear. There is a possible effect of affiliation to a specific pronunciation model, British or American.
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