Acoustic similarity and perceptual similarity between Tripolitania-Libyan arabic vowels and english vowels produced by Libyan EFL learners

• Main Author: Said, Kalthoum Ramadan M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arabic language - Foreign elements - English; Arabics language - Vowels; English language - Vowels
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99358/1/FBMK%202021%204%20IR.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/99358/

It is common that learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) struggle in acquiring English sounds, particularly in producing and perceiving English vowels. Second language speech perception models such as the Second Language Linguistic Perception Model (L2LP) (Escudero, 2005) claimed that...