Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024)
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Hungarian EFL learners’ Perception of Intrusive R in English

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Ágnes Piukovics
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Réka Hajner
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69706/PP.2024.2.1.9

Published 12/31/2024

Keywords

  • Intrusive-R,
  • R-liaison,
  • R-sandhi,
  • Hungarian learners,
  • EFL,
  • perception

Copyright (c) 2024 Ágnes Piukovics, Réka Hajner

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Abstract

This study investigates the perception of Intrusive R among Hungarian learners of English. 24 participants performed an AX discrimination task focusing on sentence pairs with and without Intrusive R. Of 264 instances of detectable Intrusive Rs, participants accurately identified 58 (21.97%), and in 78 other cases (29.55%) they managed to find the difference but could only identify it indirectly. Factors influencing perception included the presence of another /r/ near the intrusive one and the order of the sentences in the perception task.

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