Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p This dissertation offers an in-depth analysis of the acquisition of the English voice contrast by native speakers of Dutch. Even though both Dutch and English employ a two-way laryngeal contrast in obstruents, the laryngeal systems in these two languages are considerably different. Whereas in Dutch, the laryngeal contrast is one between plain voiceless and prevoiced stops, English contrasts voiceless aspirated stops with phonetically voiceless ones. Dutch and English thus belong to two typologically different types of languages: while Dutch (together with, for instance, French and Spanish) is a voicing language, English (together with, for instance, German and Swedish) is an aspirating language (cf. Jansen, 2004). Moreover, the languages differ in the voice assimilation patterns they allow. Native speakers of Dutch learning English as a foreign language thus have to learn new laryngeal representations as well as a new laryngeal grammar. The dissertation starts with a discussion of the existing theoretical work on the voicing systems of Dutch and English, and provides a new corpus of Dutch Learner English, which is analyzed in terms of current phonological theory. The main conclusion is that the English interlanguage of the learners contains a mixed laryngeal system: learners have acquired aspiration in English, but transfer prevoicing from Dutch into English. They have learnt to suppress devoicing and voice assimilation processes to some extent.. }
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- aggregation abstract "This dissertation offers an in-depth analysis of the acquisition of the English voice contrast by native speakers of Dutch. Even though both Dutch and English employ a two-way laryngeal contrast in obstruents, the laryngeal systems in these two languages are considerably different. Whereas in Dutch, the laryngeal contrast is one between plain voiceless and prevoiced stops, English contrasts voiceless aspirated stops with phonetically voiceless ones. Dutch and English thus belong to two typologically different types of languages: while Dutch (together with, for instance, French and Spanish) is a voicing language, English (together with, for instance, German and Swedish) is an aspirating language (cf. Jansen, 2004). Moreover, the languages differ in the voice assimilation patterns they allow. Native speakers of Dutch learning English as a foreign language thus have to learn new laryngeal representations as well as a new laryngeal grammar. The dissertation starts with a discussion of the existing theoretical work on the voicing systems of Dutch and English, and provides a new corpus of Dutch Learner English, which is analyzed in terms of current phonological theory. The main conclusion is that the English interlanguage of the learners contains a mixed laryngeal system: learners have acquired aspiration in English, but transfer prevoicing from Dutch into English. They have learnt to suppress devoicing and voice assimilation processes to some extent.".