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- What: Focusing on this inquiry this research examines whether native speakers of Bangla a language with tense/lax contrasts limited to mid vowels can extrapolate this ability to discriminate tense/ lax contrasts among high vowels in English a language with tense/ lax contrasts among both mid and high vowels. With the above theoretical underpinnings under consideration, this study investigated the transferability of the phonological knowledge of L1 tense-lax vowel contrasts in novel L2 tense-lax contrasts. The study, which focused on American English, a language with distinct tense/lax features, found that among the participants, only . . .
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