2020.09.12 13:24
Yoon, Tae-Jin. 2020. Repair Strategies of Complex Onset by
Spanish Learners of English in the Speech Accent Archive. Studies in Phonetics,
Phonology and Morphology 26.2. 279-301.
This paper aims at analyzing strategies of adjusting
non-permissible syllable structure by Spanish learners of English in the corpus
of the Speech Accent Archive. Words exhibiting sC (where C stands for
consonant) onset clusters in the elicitation paragraph were examined concerning
repairs by 162 Spanish learners. Collocated words before the complex onset
clusters were those ending with a vowel, an obstruent, or a voiceless alveolar
fricative, which played different roles in modifying the illegal onsets,
ranging from prosthesis even to deletion, which is rarely discussed in Spanish
Interlanguage Phonology. Prosthesis is attested as the most frequent repair
strategy, but with a much lower proportion than reported in earlier studies. A
mixed effects logistic regression analysis suggests that the onset of age in
English learning and the context of the preceding words best explain when
prosthesis occurs.
Keywords: Prosthesis, Homorganic deletion, Repair of
Syllable Structure, Spanish learners of English, Speech Accent Archive, Age of
Onset