Mother-tongue influence in the pronunciation contrast of the English /i/and/i/vowel sounds among Malaysian Malay esl speakers

• Main Author: Tan, Li-Lian @ Lillian Tan.
• Format: E-LPTA
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 1997
• Subjects: PE English
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10131/1/Mother-tongue%20influence%20in%20the%20pronunciation%20contrast%20of%20the%20English%20-i-and%20-I-%20vowel%20sounds%20among%20Malaysian%20Malay%20ESL%20speakers%20%2824pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10131/2/Mother-tongue%20influence%20in%20the%20pronunciation%20contrast%20of%20the%20English%20-i-and%20-I-%20vowel%20sounds%20among%20Malaysian%20Malay%20ESL%20speakers%28fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10131/

Language transfer has been a controversial topic that has been the debate of many linguists, language teachers and instructors. This paper investigates the existence of such transfer in Malaysian Malay ESL speakers in the production of the English vowel sounds %i/ and /d. It has been found that t...