What is it about?
Both Jenkins (2000) and Deterding & Mohamud (2016) claim that vowel quality is not very important to the maintenance of mutual intelligibility in ELF interactions, but using segmental repair analysis, this article demonstrates that vowel quality is actually very important to the maintenance of mutual intelligibility in ELF interactions.
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Why is it important?
This short article demonstrates that one tenet of ELF phonology is wrong--vowel quality matters.
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This page is a summary of: ELF intelligibility: the vowel quality factor, Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2015-0026.
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