V. Phonological Variation There are several phonetic and phonological variations that Yash struggles with when speaking English that can be seen in the IPA transcription of our interview. The first most obvious variation is Yash substitutes the D for T multiple times throughout this interview, and can be seen in the way he pronounced words like the, things, and many other English words that have the letter T in them. Another phonetical variation that Yash has when speaking English is that Yash struggles being consistent when pronouncing certain letters, in particular vowels. He is very inconsistent with his pronunciation of Vowels especially, and this can be seen in the way he can pronounces vowels properly in some words in the transcript, but then struggles properly pronouncing the same vowel in a different word. The last major phonetic or phonetical variation I was able to observe and transcribe in my IPA transcriptions above was that Yash had a few times during out interviews where he delete the final constants off of words he pronouncing in English. This can be seen in my IPA transcription of the interviews when Yash deletes and does not pronounce the final G when saying he felt most comfortable in his car driving. VI. Morphological and Semantic Variation and Grammatical Errors …show more content…
Yash only exhibited one real morphological error that can be seen in the IPA transcription of our interviews. During the interview Yash said, "sometime at the house", and in his English pronunciation of this he mistakenly deleted off the final S that should have been added to the end of sometime. Yash should have said, "sometimes at home", as this would be the morphologically correct way of expressing this statement in