Vietlish vowels and consonants

This morning our VietSpeech team discussed data from Study 2 regarding our Vietnamese-Australian adults' production of English vowels to create a list of Vietlish vowels (we also discussed some consonants). That is, vowels that align with Vietnamese pronunciations that are used in English words. We will use this to assist with our VietSpeech analyses of children's speech and with differential diagnosis between children with typically developing speech and children with speech sound disorder.

Dr Ben Pham and Dr Van Tran have Vietnamese as their first langauge and have studied linguistics and phonetics. Kate Margetson and Sharynne McLeod have English as their first language and have studied speech-language pathology. Ben, Van and Kate have lived in Vietnam for different lengths of time, while Sharynne has visited on a number of occasions to teach speech sound disorders to Vietnamese university students. We came to the task with rich and different expertise. It was a fun morning.

Dr Ben Pham (HNUE, Vietnam), Dr Van Tran, Prof Sharynne McLeod and Kate Margetson (CSU)

Here are some Vietnamese references that use the term "Vietlish"

• https://js.vnu.edu.vn/FS/article/view/1100 
• https://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/58758