L2-English Resuscitates L1-German: The Case of Post-vocalic /r/
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The paper reports findings of a production experiment investigating the realisation of post-vocalic /r/ produced by native (L1) speakers of English and German and late second language (L2) learners of two varieties of English; one rhotic variety spoken in Belfast and one non-rhotic variety spoken in Oxford. The study aims to explore whether there is a difference in the realisation of post-vocalic /r/ produced by native speakers of a German non-rhotic variety spoken in Berlin as a result of exposure to a rhotic or non-rhotic variety of English. Results of an auditory and acoustic analysis of post-vocalic /r/ in the speakers’ L1 German and L2 English suggest that exposure to a rhotic L2 variety of English revitalises the post-vocalic /r/ realisation in L1 German whereas exposure to non-rhotic L2-English does not interfere with non-rhotic L1 German. However, this effect cannot be generalised since the phonetic context seem to affect the interference phenomenon.
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