Articulatory Timing of English Polysyllabic Words As Produced By Iraqi EFL Learners: An Acoustic Study

Abstract

This paper acoustically scrutinizes the variant articulatory timing of English polysyllabic words produced by Iraqi learners of English as a foreign language. sixteen Iraqi students, from the 2nd and 4th stages at the department of English, pronounced words of 2-7 syllables that were later analyzed acoustically. They produced these words with variant timing. Variation was proportional to syllables number in a word.