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Phonetic Fossilization: Is It a Matter of Perfection or Intelligibility?

Phonetic Fossilization: Is It a Matter of Perfection or Intelligibility?

Aicha Rahal
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522540090|ISBN10: 1522540091|EISBN13: 9781522540106
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4009-0.ch012
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Rahal, Aicha. "Phonetic Fossilization: Is It a Matter of Perfection or Intelligibility?." Psycholinguistics and Cognition in Language Processing, edited by Duygu Buğa and Muhlise Coşgun Ögeyik, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 244-265. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4009-0.ch012

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Rahal, A. (2018). Phonetic Fossilization: Is It a Matter of Perfection or Intelligibility?. In D. Buğa & M. Coşgun Ögeyik (Eds.), Psycholinguistics and Cognition in Language Processing (pp. 244-265). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4009-0.ch012

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Rahal, Aicha. "Phonetic Fossilization: Is It a Matter of Perfection or Intelligibility?." In Psycholinguistics and Cognition in Language Processing, edited by Duygu Buğa and Muhlise Coşgun Ögeyik, 244-265. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4009-0.ch012

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Abstract

Fossilization is a common linguistic phenomenon among learners. It presents an obstacle that hinders the process of learning and prevents learners from acquiring the target language. The present chapter explores this phenomenon. It gives an overview of the theory of interlanguage and the concept of fossilization. The chapter presents the history of pronunciation teaching. It also reviews a previous study on pronunciation problems and fossilized errors that face learners of English as a second or a foreign language. The present chapter also raises an important question. It attempts to show the matter behind this linguistic phenomenon. There seems to be different views. Some researchers claim that phonetic fossilization is a matter of intelligibility. Other researchers state that achieving perfection in pronunciation is preferable. Another trend of researchers assumes that fossilization cannot be applied to the multilingual context.

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