HOW ALLOPHONES AFFECT COMPRHENSIBILITY IN NON-NATIVE ENGLISH ACCENTS
Keywords:
Allophones, accent, non-native speakers, English sound, communicationAbstract
In this article we will look at how allophones affect the understand od non-native English accents. Allophones are small pitch changes in speech. In English the same letter can sound different in different words. Native speakers use these sounds without thinking, but non-native speakers do not use the correct allophones, which makes it difficult for people to understand them.
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