SOUNDS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
SOUNDS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

Summary/Abstract: Interdental fricatives stand for an area of conflict between English and Romanian. Determining factors such as age, register, typological markedness, developmental effects and universal constraints are also looked into within various L-2 phonology based models such as the Speech Learning Model (Flege 1986), the Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (Major: 2001) and the Markedness Differential Hypothesis (Eckman 1977). Both the collection and the analysis of the data obtained are entirely my original contribution to the scientific study under consideration. Spectrographic and statistical analyses are mainly employed throughout the current article to substantiate the soundness of all the three theoretical frameworks reference was made to.

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