Perception of voicing in English word-final consonants: examining the perceptual assimilation model

This paper presents the findings of a perception experiment that was conducted to examine the relative difficulty encountered by Malay speakers of English in contrasting voicing in word-final obstruents. The pairs of obstruents examined in the paper were /t/-/d/, /s/-/z/ and /f/-/v/. Results from t...

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Main Author: Pilus, Zahariah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Malaysian English Language Association (MELTA) 2005
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/2561/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2561/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2561/1/zahariah.pdf