No Need to Quit Your Flapping : The Intelligibility of Flap /ɾ/ Phoneme Substitutions for either the /ɹ/ or /l/ Phonemes in Non-native English Speaker Conversations

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This is a qualitative study of the intelligibility of /ɾ/ phonemes that are substituted for either the phoneme /ɹ/ or the phoneme /l/ in conversations between Japanese non-native English speakers and non-Japanese non-native English peakers.Adopting a conversation analytic definition and measurement of intelligibility, this study argues that a phoneme should be defined as intelligible under the following conditions : 1) the phoneme is commonly present within utterances that are oriented to as telligible; 2) the phoneme can be used to complete the repair of other phonemes that are oriented to as unintelligible. Using a corpus of recorded Skype conversations between Japanese non-native speakers of English and non-Japanese non-native speakers of English, who are all students at the same Japanese university, this study demonstrates that the substitution of either the /ɹ/ or the /l/ phoneme with the flap /ɾ/ phoneme in conversational praxis is fully intelligible for the conversationalists in the rpus. This study concludes that the exact articulation of the /ɹ/ and /l/ phonemes is superfluous to intelligible communication between Japanese non-native English speakers and other non-Japanese non-native English speakers.

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