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Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers

Pronunciation in second language learning is sometimes challenging, especially the vowels. Vowels such as [i] and [a] are found both in Hausa and Yorùbá but [i:] and [a:] are peculiar to Hausa alone. While Hausa has short and long vowels, Yorùbá has only oral and nasal vowels in their vowel inve...

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Main Authors:	Maikanti, Sale, Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin, Yong, Mei Fung, Husain, Salina, Oludare, Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob
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Published:	Secholian Publication 2021
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94200/ https://msocialsciences.com/index.php/mjssh/article/view/921
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spelling	my.upm.eprints.942002023-05-18T03:26:23Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94200/ Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers Maikanti, Sale Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin Yong, Mei Fung Husain, Salina Oludare, Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob Pronunciation in second language learning is sometimes challenging, especially the vowels. Vowels such as [i] and [a] are found both in Hausa and Yorùbá but [i:] and [a:] are peculiar to Hausa alone. While Hausa has short and long vowels, Yorùbá has only oral and nasal vowels in their vowel inventories. Such phonemic differences constitute learning challenges, especially for the Yorùbá native speakers. This is a cross-sectional study design using mixed methods to examines the production of high front vowels: [i], and [i:], as well as low: [a], and [a:] Hausa vowels by the Yorùbá speakers to identify which group perform better between group 1 (Yorùbá native speakers who learned Hausa in the secondary school before going to the college of education), and group 2 (Yorùbá native speakers who learned Hausa informally before going to the college of education). The study also seeks to find out vowel substitutions that occur in the pronunciation tasks using 80 participants from 18 years old and above from the College of Education system in Nigeria who were selected based on purposive sampling. The findings were discussed in line with Flege & Bohn’s (2020) ‘Revised Speech Learning Model’. 8 stimuli were audio-recorded, transcribed, and rated by two independent raters, in addition to participant observation techniques adapted. The results of the Mann-Whitney test revealed that group 2 performed better than group 1. The study discovered also that the short [a] in the first and second syllables had the highest frequency of substitution compared to [i], [i:] and [a:] vowels. Such problems have pedagogical implications for learning Hausa as a second language. Secholian Publication 2021-07-10 Article PeerReviewed Maikanti, Sale and Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin and Yong, Mei Fung and Husain, Salina and Oludare, Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob (2021) Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers. Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 6 (7). 321 - 335. ISSN 2504-8562 https://msocialsciences.com/index.php/mjssh/article/view/921 10.47405/mjssh.v6i7.921
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description	Pronunciation in second language learning is sometimes challenging, especially the vowels. Vowels such as [i] and [a] are found both in Hausa and Yorùbá but [i:] and [a:] are peculiar to Hausa alone. While Hausa has short and long vowels, Yorùbá has only oral and nasal vowels in their vowel inventories. Such phonemic differences constitute learning challenges, especially for the Yorùbá native speakers. This is a cross-sectional study design using mixed methods to examines the production of high front vowels: [i], and [i:], as well as low: [a], and [a:] Hausa vowels by the Yorùbá speakers to identify which group perform better between group 1 (Yorùbá native speakers who learned Hausa in the secondary school before going to the college of education), and group 2 (Yorùbá native speakers who learned Hausa informally before going to the college of education). The study also seeks to find out vowel substitutions that occur in the pronunciation tasks using 80 participants from 18 years old and above from the College of Education system in Nigeria who were selected based on purposive sampling. The findings were discussed in line with Flege & Bohn’s (2020) ‘Revised Speech Learning Model’. 8 stimuli were audio-recorded, transcribed, and rated by two independent raters, in addition to participant observation techniques adapted. The results of the Mann-Whitney test revealed that group 2 performed better than group 1. The study discovered also that the short [a] in the first and second syllables had the highest frequency of substitution compared to [i], [i:] and [a:] vowels. Such problems have pedagogical implications for learning Hausa as a second language.
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author	Maikanti, Sale Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin Yong, Mei Fung Husain, Salina Oludare, Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob
spellingShingle	Maikanti, Sale Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin Yong, Mei Fung Husain, Salina Oludare, Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers
author_facet	Maikanti, Sale Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin Yong, Mei Fung Husain, Salina Oludare, Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob
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title	Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers
title_short	Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers
title_full	Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers
title_fullStr	Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers
title_full_unstemmed	Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers
title_sort	mispronunciation of high front and low hausa vowels among the yorùbá speakers
publisher	Secholian Publication
publishDate	2021
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94200/ https://msocialsciences.com/index.php/mjssh/article/view/921
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Mispronunciation of high front and low Hausa vowels among the Yorùbá speakers

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