The interference of gemination in the pronunciation of Arab students learning French
Keywords:
Gemination, Effect of orthography, Interference, Arab students, Error analysisAbstract
This study investigates the effect Arabic has on the pronunciation of French as a foreign language. It contains Acoustic measurements for the duration of graphically geminate consonants pronounced by native speakers of French and Jordanian learners. It includes also the results of perceptive tests. The results show that the target consonants produced by the learners were meaningfully longer than those pronounced by the French speakers. The perceptive tests also confirm that most of the target words were produced with geminate consonants by the learners. The research ends with some practical proposals that hopefully would help learners overcome the interference of gemination from Arabic to French.
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