We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
The production of English codas by Thai speakers.
- Authors
Iadkert, Kamonnate; Hashim, Azirah
- Abstract
This study aims, first, to examine how Thai speakers produce English codas to address the variation performance in producing single and double consonant clusters. And seceond, this study investigates how the sonority degree relates to the coda consonant production. Three Thai university students were asked to read 64 sentences with a total of 279 single-coda consonant productions and 132 coda cluster productions. The results showed that the participants' errors in producing coda consonants were categorized into three types: substitution, deletion, and insertion. Obstruents were more marked than sonorants. The participants could produce single phonemes better than clusters in coda position. The single codas produced by Thai speakers violated the SSP. For the cluster production, the sonority distance did not sort the ranking of difficulty in producing the coda clusters. However, the L1 interference occurred in all single-coda phonemes. It is interesting that the fricative /s/ which is not allowed in Thai codas had higher accuracy percentages than the codas that exist in Thai, such as /k/, /n/ and /t/.
- Subjects
CONSONANTS; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Linguistics Journal, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 1, p276
- ISSN
1718-2301
- Publication type
Article