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What does the term interlanguage refer to?
It's the independent linguistic system used by a speaker when using the language they're learning (English)
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Are all consonant sounds difficult for a Spanish speaker who is learning English as SL?
No; most consonant sounds are produced with no problems due to the similarities between both languages.
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How would a Spanish speaker pronounce the English word "voice"? Why?
The word "voice" begins with the voiced labio-dental fricative, a sound that Spanish speakers tend to replace by a bilabial variation
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Of the English consonant sounds, which is the one that causes the greatest difficulty? Why? Give examples.
Plosives - Lack of aspiration
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Which allophonic variation do Spanish speakers use when they have to pronounce the voiced velar plosive? Give an example.
They tend to use the voiced velar fricative as in the word [paÉĢo]
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Which is difficulty posed by initial clusters? Give examples.
Spanish speakers tend to introduce a vowel sound, known as epenthetic. For example: sky, spot, stay
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The voiced alveolar plosive is usually replaced by its allophonic variation; mainly between vowels. Which is that allophonic variation?
It's the voiced dental fricative, in word such as ladder /lÃĶdÉ/ - /lÃĶðÉ/
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How do Spanish speakers tend to pronounce the voiceless alveolar plosive? Give an example
It's usually dentalized and unaspirated. E.g.: tin as in the word tanto
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When it comes to comparing Spanish and English, which variety of Spanish do we take into account? Why?
River Plate Spanish - Because it's the most prominent dialect, being considered as the standard in the audiovisual media.
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