Keywords
aligners
initial clusters
interphonology
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Abstract
The compilation of L2 learner oral corpora entails a series of methodological challenges regarding both their design and annotation. Researchers argue that automatic phonetic segmentation is a necessary step in their creation, since manual segmentation can be time consuming, expensive, and inconsistent. Furthermore, previous results have shown that forced alignment algorithms can be valuable tools for the corpus-based study of interlanguage. This article describes the use of forced alignment software for the characterization of the formant structure of epenthetic vowels in Mexican learners of English as L2. The collected oral data, and its subsequent analysis, constitutes the first acoustic characterization of epenthetic vowels in the population of interest. The obtained results constitute a starting point for further inquiry considering a higher number of speakers, other L2 proficiency levels, and different speech styles. Results show that epenthetic vowel is closer than the Spanish allophone.
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