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The current paper concerns language transfer at the phonetic level andconcentrates on the transfer phenomenon in an advanced English languagelearner's acquisition of the English vowels /i/ and its lax counterpart. Bydetermining whether the Chinese English-language learner (ELL), named Vanya,can accurately distinguish between /i/ and its lax counterpart, and pronouncethem precisely in General American English (GAE), this paper serves as areference for further studying language transfer among Chinese ELLs. There weretwo objectives: first, the learner's perceptual ability to distinguish betweenvowels /i/ and its lax counterpart was examined; second, the effect of thephonetic transfer was determined. Two perception tests and a production testwere used to attain these two objectives. The results of two perception testsdemonstrated Vanya's perceptual competence in distinguishing between /i/ andits lax counterpart and laid a solid foundation for the validity of thesubsequent production test. Given that Vanya's production of F1 and F2 valuesof /i/ were highly similar across his first language (Mandarin Chinese) andsecond language (GAE) and that both values were lower than the typical valuesfor common /i/ in GAE, with an especially prominent disparity between the F2values, it is reasonable to conclude that a phonetic transfer occurred. Theparticipant's high perceptual competence as an advanced-level ELL did notnoticeably moderate the effect of phonetic transfer.

Chinese Learners' Phonetic Transfer of /i/ from Mandarin Chinese to  General American English: A Case Study of a Chinese Learner with Advanced  English