Date:
November 1980
Page No.:
101
Writer(s):
M. Stanley Whitley
In this article it is suggested that
the analysis of phonological problems
encountered by students cannot proceed
just from comparisons of source and
target language phonemes. In the
specific case of Japanese students
learning English, it is shown that
several resources fail to predict a
certain area of difficulty, perhaps
because they give more attention to
phonemes and phonemic contrasts than
to phonetic details. The latter, far
from being negligible, can serve as
clues for discovering underlying rules
which are carried over from language
to the next.
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