L2 Epenthesis and Ellipsis

A Perspective of Radical CV Phonology

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.079How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Syllable structure; L2 phonology; Epenthesis; Ellipsis; Speech error predictivity

Abstract

This article investigates L1 syllable structure’s influence on the epenthesis and ellipsis in L2 speech production and introduces the Radical CV Phonology approach into the theorizing of second language phonology. In the experiment of this study, participants were induced to produce nonwords of the syllabic structure of their L1 or L2 or neither so that we can examine the syllable’s relationship with epenthesis and ellipsis frequency in speech. The results of the experiment indicate a causal relationship between L1 syllable structure and L2 mispronunciation. We also find the epenthetic and elliptic instances match the RCVP’s modeling of the syllable and then succeed in representing the syllable structure of an ESL learner that entails all syllables he may produce.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xuchen Li
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - L2 Epenthesis and Ellipsis
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 454
EP  - 457
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.079
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.079
ID  - Li2021
ER  -