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Compare Two Phonological Systems to Find My Blind Spots
You already speak two languages and are adding a third, so your blind spots come from both. This runs a contrastive phonological analysis, mapping the contrasts in the new language that neither of your existing ones has, the highest-risk ground. For advanced learners and linguists who want their gaps named precisely rather than discovered the hard way.
I am an expert-level linguist and language learner adding {TARGET_LANGUAGE} to my existing repertoire. My dominant languages are {L1_LANGUAGE} and {L2_LANGUAGE}.
Conduct a detailed contrastive phonological analysis between {TARGET_LANGUAGE} and both of my existing languages:
1. Map all phonemic contrasts that exist in {TARGET_LANGUAGE} but are absent from both {L1_LANGUAGE} and {L2_LANGUAGE}: these are my highest-risk blind spots.
2. Identify phonemes where {L1_LANGUAGE} and {L2_LANGUAGE} interference may compound each other in unexpected ways.
3. Highlight suprasegmental features (tone, stress, rhythm class, intonation typology) where cross-linguistic transfer is most likely to degrade intelligibility.
4. Propose a personalised gap-filling study order based on acquisition difficulty and communicative impact.
5. Recommend two peer-reviewed resources or corpora I can use to verify my self-assessment as I progress.
Use IPA throughout. Assume full phonological literacy. ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.