Articulatory Setting

Mohd Izwan bin Abdul Rashid 192119

Language differ quite radically in their articulatory setting - tension - tongue shape - pressure of the articulator - lips - cheek and jaw posture and movement Faulty a.s. make it far more difficult for learners to achieve (near-) target pronunciation- because (nearpronunciationa.s act as a kind of link or pivot between segmentals and suprasegmentals

Mastery in the area of articulatory setting

Facilitates the production of core sounds

Enables the speaker to manipulate sounds to produce stress

The difficulties that learners encounter in adapting to L2 a.s. generally relate to - the types of movements that the articulators, particularly the tongue, lips and velum engage in - the degree of muscularity and tension involved - jaw, cheek and lip posture

We are mainly concerned with the intelligibility not for native speakers but for other L2 speaker of English The goal is for learners of English to sound as nativenative-like as possible Learners may decide that although they wish to speak English fluently, they neither want nor need to sound like a native speaker. They may wish to preserve the vestige of a foreign accent as a mark of their identity/nationality (Jenner: 1992: 39)

The acceptability of EIL



People should learn LFC in order to equip themselves for international communication L2 learners are using the knowledge of their language by adjusting their speech to accommodate to their different interlocutor Therefore, the acceptability problem is not a major concern