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Successive Approximations in Second Language Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Terry Piper
Terry Piper*
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University of British Columbia
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Research in second language phonology has, until recently at least, been principally concerned with the interference of the learner’s first language in his acquisition of a new sound system. In practice, the belief that interference from the first language is the major source of pronunciation problems is well established among second language teachers, and teachers have traditionally been trained to recognize and remedy, if not try to prevent, the errors resulting from this interference. Recently, however, researchers (for example, Garnica and Herbert 1979) have begun to conclude that interference is not a sufficient explanation, and that the second language learner’s developing phonology, his approximative system, is undoubtedly influenced by many other factors.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , Fall 1984 , pp. 135 - 156
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1984

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