Chinese Learners' Phonetic Transfer of /i/ from Mandarin Chinese to General American English: Evidence from Perception and Production Experiments. (arXiv:2112.13571v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Ever since the development of Contrastive Analysis (CA) in the 1950s, which
focuses on comparing and contrasting two language systems, linguists have
started to systematically explore the influence of the mother tongue on
acquiring a second language. This phenomenon is later defined as "language
transfer". The current paper concerns language transfer at the phonetic level
and concentrates on the transfer phenomenon existing in advanced-level Chinese
learners' acquisition of English vowels /i/ and its lax counterpart. By
determining whether advanced-level Chinese …

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