Articulatory timing of English polysyllabic words as produced By Iraqi EFL learners : an acoustic study

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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.