A corpus of Vietnamese accented English speech designed to elicit a careful but unguarded style of speaking was collected from 16 Vietnamese overseas students studying at an Australian University …
The result of the study shows that Vietnamese accented English is strongly influenced by the dissimilarities between Vietnamese and English.
itself leads to a number of glottal effects in Vietnamese-accented English. Taken together, we may call glottal reinforcement voiced implosives focal sounds for this accent. • /b, d/ [??, ??] The voiced stops [b] and [d] are always glottalized in Vietnamese (that is to say, they are always reinforced by a simultaneous closing of the vocal, It is widely agreed that syllabic structure of English is (C) (C) (C) V (C) (C) (C) (C). Almost every English consonant appears word-finally, except for /h/, /w/ and /j/ (Cummins, 1998). Besides, English has a lot of complicated consonant clusters, as mentioned previously, combining two, three and even four consonants together in the onset and coda.
Vietnamese-accented English (VAE) is to Taiwanese listeners, let alone which factors possibly affect their evaluation. Therefore, relevant empirical studies can provide some significant pedagogical implications for Vietnamese EFL learners seeking to successfully communicate in English .
Quality, quantity and intelligibility of vowels in Vietnamese-accented English
