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040			_aCY-NiCIU _beng _cCY-NiCIU _erda
041			_aeng
090			_aYL 2643 _bS69 2022
100	1		_aSözüdoğru, Nevvar
245	1	0	_aRESEARCH INTO PRONUNCIATION ERRORS OF CONSONANTAL PHONEMES COMMITTED BY EFL LEARNERS OF ENGLISH AT PREPARATORY SCHOOL / _cNEVVAR SÖZÜDOĞRU; SUPERVISOR: PROF. DR. MEHMET ALI YAVUZ
264			_c2022
300			_a51 sheets; _c31 cm. _eIncludes CD
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
502			_aThesis (MA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research English Language Teaching Department
504			_aIncludes bibliography (sheets 44-46)
520			_aABSTRACT This research aimed to determine which initially, medially, and finally occurring consonantal phonemes and which initial and final consonant clusters are the most demanding to articulate for learners of English. The study was carried out with 20 university preparatory school learners in Cyprus. To this end, they were asked to articulate the given 297 words and their voices were recorded and the obtained data in this way were analysed. According to the results of the study, the most demanding phonemes were found to be the phoneme /ð/ occurring initially, medially, and finally in English words; and /θ/ are the most demanding phonemes regardless of their positions in words. The phoneme /θ/ was found disturbing with other phonemes such as /r/ in the case of initial clusters, phoneme /ð/ does not conform at the second final cluster position such as /ðm/, /ðn/, /ðz/. However, the final cluster /z/ causes fundamental issues with the pronunciation such as in /bz/, /dz/, /gz/, /mbz/, /nz/, /ŋz/ with a 100% error ratio for the participants of this study. In order to determine whether there were differences between male and female native speakers of Turkish and French in articulating target phonemes the T-test was used. It was also revealed that there is no statistically significant difference between male and female participants when the articulation of the English consonants and clusters is concerned.
650		0	_aLanguage and Languages _vDissertations, Academic
650		0	_aEnglish language _vDissertations, Academic _xPronunciation
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