title: THE ROLE OF NATIVE LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY IN THE PRODUCTION OF L2 CONTRASTS.
abstract: We present findings of an investigation into the acquisition of the English /s/-/ʃ/ contrast by native speakers of Korean and Japanese. Both of these languages have the phones [s] and [ʃ], and both languages exhibit a pattern-or motivate a rule-whereby /s/ is realized as [ʃ] before the vowel [i] and the glide [j]-that is, high front vocoids. The crucial difference, and the focus of this study, is that in Korean [s] and [ʃ] are allophones of /s/, whereas in Japanese the two sounds arguably instantiate different phonemes. We present production data showing that the differences in the functioning of [s] and [ʃ] in the second language learner's native language have different consequences for the acquisition patterns and the error types produced in the learning of this contrast.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Eckman
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
authors.forename: Gregory K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Iverson