THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH PHONOLOGY BY ROMANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

“The present PhD thesis investigates, at the segmental level, the factors that influence the aquisition of second language phonology by Romanian learners of English. I have chosen to look into this topical issue as little has been written or published to date in the theoretical frameworks I selected on the following RP tokens which stand for an area of conflict between English and Romanian: the tense vs. lax quality of three distinct lexical sets of monophthongs such as DRESS vs. TRAP[…]”.