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Author : Amanda Plante
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Perception and Production of German Vowels by Native English Speakers written by Amanda Plante and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brooke Sahlin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Perception and Production of German Vowel Contrasts by Native Speakers of American English written by Brooke Sahlin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nimz, Katharina
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN 13 : 3869563613
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Sound perception and production in a foreign language written by Nimz, Katharina and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study addresses the question of how German vowels are perceived and produced by Polish learners of German as a Foreign Language. It comprises three main experiments: a discrimination experiment, a production experiment, and an identification experiment. With the exception of the discrimination task, the experiments further investigated the influence of orthographic marking on the perception and production of German vowel length. It was assumed that explicit markings such as the Dehnungs-h ("lengthening h") could help Polish GFL learners in perceiving and producing German words more correctly. The discrimination experiment with manipulated nonce words showed that Polish GFL learners detect pure length differences in German vowels less accurately than German native speakers, while this was not the case for pure quality differences. The results of the identification experiment contrast with the results of the discrimination task in that Polish GFL learners were better at judging incorrect vowel length than incorrect vowel quality in manipulated real words. However, orthographic marking did not turn out to be the driving factor and it is suggested that metalinguistic awareness can explain the asymmetry between the two perception experiments. The production experiment supported the results of the identification task in that lengthening h did not help Polish learners in producing German vowel length more correctly. Yet, as far as vowel quality productions are concerned, it is argued that orthography does influence L2 sound productions because Polish learners seem to be negatively influenced by their native grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences. It is concluded that it is important to differentiate between the influence of the L1 and L2 orthographic system. On the one hand, the investigation of the influence of orthographic vowel length markers in German suggests that Polish GFL learners do not make use of length information provided by the L2 orthographic system. On the other hand, the vowel quality data suggest that the L1 orthographic system plays a crucial role in the acquisition of a foreign language. It is therefore proposed that orthography influences the acquisition of foreign sounds, but not in the way it was originally assumed.
Author : Lore Katharina Gerti Schultheiss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Cross-language Perception of German Vowels by Speakers of American English written by Lore Katharina Gerti Schultheiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on how the cross-language perception of German vowels by native speakers of North American English differs based on various levels of classroom instruction and experience in a German-speaking country. Of special interest is whether more advanced students and those with target country experience have a different cross-language perception of German vowels from naive or less-experienced listeners. It further examines how English-speaking learners perceive German sounds that are not found in English, namely the front-rounded vowels. Study participants were students at Brigham Young University, divided into four groups: those 1) without knowledge of German; 2) in their 3rd semester of German without stay abroad; 3) in their 5th semester of German or above without stay abroad; and 4) in their 5th semester or above with at least 12 months in a German-speaking country. The subjects performed two tasks. While listening to German words, they first selected the English word with the vowel that most closely matched the German vowel heard from a list of English words on the computer screen; and secondly, they rated how much alike the German vowel sounded like the English vowel they chose. The results indicate that level of instruction does indeed affect how subjects perceive German vowels. Moreover, perception of the vowels was to some degree affected by the consonant environment. Finally, it was found that all groups rated the similarity of vowels in a similar manner regardless of experience.
Author : Mary Grantham O'Brien
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Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Longitudinal Development of Second Language German Vowels written by Mary Grantham O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradley J. York
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Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Experience on the Perception of German Rounded Vowels by Native Speakers of American English written by Bradley J. York and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the effects of experience in German on the categorical perception of German rounded vowels, namely /u:/, /U/, /o:/, (open o), /y:/, /Y/, /ø:/, and /œ/, by native speakers of American English (AE). Of special interest is whether more experience in German leads to more accurate perception of German front rounded vowels, namely /y:/, /Y/, /ø:/, and /œ/, which do not have correlates in American English and are well known to cause perceptual problems for native AE speakers (Strange, Bohn, Trent, & Nishi, 2004). Subjects in this study were students at Brigham Young University that were divided into 4 experimental groups: students at the end of first-semester German with no residency in a German-speaking country (101 group); students at the end of third-semester German with no residency (201 group); students in third-year or higher German courses with less than 4 months of residency (300+ group); students in third-year or higher courses with 16 or more months of residency (300+Resi group). A control group of native German speakers also participated. Subjects completed a forced-choice identification task in which they selected the German word they thought they heard. The results of the task indicate that experience in German did affect native AE-speaking subjects' overall identification accuracy of German rounded vowels. In particular, a statistically significant difference was found between the 101 and 300+Resi groups for all German rounded vowels except /u:/ and /U/, suggesting that experience significantly affected AE subjects' perception of all of these vowels except /u:/ and /U.
Author : Anja K. Steinlen
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823361138
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The Influence of Consonants on Native and Non-native Vowel Production written by Anja K. Steinlen and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rudolf Weiss
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Perception of Vowel Length and Quality in German written by Rudolf Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an unpublished dissertation titled Perceptual parameters of vowel length and quality in standard New High German (University of Colorado, 1970). The experiment described is regarded to be an innovative departure in the investigation of vowel perception: vowels are used in which the qualitative and durational aspects have been manipulated quite naturally. The topic has aroused considerable interest. Several articles on the significance and application of the test have already been written.
Author : Ewa Jacewicz
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Phonological Context in the Acquisition of Second Language Vowelss written by Ewa Jacewicz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miranda E. Wilkerson
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Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book (In)variability in Accent Perception written by Miranda E. Wilkerson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Elaine Gardner
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Effect of First Language Dialect Vowel Mergers on Second Language Perception and Production written by Christine Elaine Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous second language (L2) acquisition research has assumed that L2 learners from a common first language (L1) have the same problems in an L2, ignoring the potential impact of a speaker's L1 dialect on L2 acquisition. This study examines the effects of L1 dialect on the acquisition of L2 German vowels. In particular, this thesis investigates two questions: 1) Do speakers from L1 dialects with vowel mergers perceive or produce vowel contrasts in the L1 and/or L2 differently than speakers from dialect areas without the same mergers? and 2) Are subjects' patterns of L1 perception or production paralleled in the L2? This thesis focuses on the vowel contrasts "pin"-"pen," "fail"-"fell," and "pool"-"pull"-"pole," which are merged (i.e., neutralized) in some environments in the Mississippi dialect, such that words like "him" and "hem" are heard or produced as the same word. Two groups of subjects participated: students from The University of Mississippi (the merging group) and students from Brigham Young University (BYU) (the non-merging group). Subjects completed a perceptual task and a production task. The perception task was a forced-choice identification task in which subjects heard English and German words and indicated which word they heard. In the production task, subjects read aloud German and English sentences. Results indicate that BYU subjects were significantly better than UMiss subjects at perceiving many vowel contrasts in English and German. Additionally, some perceptual patterns seemed to transfer to the L2, e.g., /in/ and /en/, were identified with similar accuracy in English and in German. In production, the groups differed significantly from each other in their production of many vowel contrasts, while acoustic analysis found no production mergers for either group in English or German. In two case studies, perception results and production results (as found by native speaker judgments), showed that vowel contrasts merged in English were also problematic in L2 German, though the problematic vowel was not necessarily the same. In sum, the UMiss speakers with mergers in their L1 dialect appeared to face different challenges than the BYU speakers when perceiving and producing German vowel contrasts. Results have implications for the L2 classroom and L2 research, suggesting that instructors may need different teaching strategies for speakers from merging dialects.
Author : Ratree Wayland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882366
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Second Language Speech Learning written by Ratree Wayland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Author : Dennie Hoopingarner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Native and Nonnative Differences in the Perception and Production of Vowels written by Dennie Hoopingarner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Colantoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368254
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Second Language Speech written by Laura Colantoni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language acquisition has also informed the fields of linguistics and psychology in general, as it has shed light on the differences between native and non-native models of human language and cognition. The focus of this accessible new book is second language speech - that is, how speakers perceive, process, understand and pronounce the sounds of a second language. Each chapter includes review questions, and most chapters include 'tutorial' and 'lab' sections with practical exercises based on the University of Toronto Romance Phonetics Database (available online for free). The book also has a companion website, containing illustrated answers to the exercises, scripts for running acoustic analyses and useful weblinks.
Author : Mark Amengual
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036509666
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism written by Mark Amengual and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.
Author : Murray James Munro
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Perception and Production of English Vowels by Native Speakers of Arabic written by Murray James Munro and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Burger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640323424
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Teaching English Pronunciation to L1 Speakers of German at Gymnasium written by Michael Burger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Augsburg (Phil-Hist Fakultät), course: Teaching and Learning English Pronunciation, language: English, abstract: In the course of the last three decades a whole new prominence has been granted to the significance of foreign language (FL) learning. Due to the recent development of globalization, further emerging of multi-national enterprises and the coalescence of the European Union, this appears to be the logical consequence. Because of its nowadays widely accepted status as a lingua franca (Acar 2006) the learning and teaching of English as the most frequently spoken second language has gained importance – in Germany as well as in most industrialized countries speaking prevalently another first language (L1). In the recent past, since the end of the 19th century, changing trends have focused on different methods of language teaching, such as the ability to translate texts, correct use of grammar, or wide range of vocabulary. However, the teaching of English pronunciation finally has come back into the focus of interest since the second half of the 1980s due to the mentioned economic and social changes. Nowadays the ability to (net-) work internationally – and thus reach the “ultimate goal of communication with other speakers of the second language” (Brown 1994: 226) seems to be one of the highest goals of achievement of second language (L2) learning. During the time of almost one century of pronunciation teaching the attitude towards the issue has changed as well: as Chun (1991: 179) states in her article, the development started from a segmental and comparative sound repetition learning strategy, followed by a period of simply ignoring the topic completely from the 1960s to the early 1980s, leading finally to the up-to-date approach of teaching suprasegmentals, sentence intonation as well as other aspects of connected speech. The most current approach towards second language teaching lies, according to Neri, Cucchiarini and Strik (2006: 357), in “the achievement of communicative effectiveness”. This means that learners do not necessarily have to eradicate the slightest traces of foreign accent in their productions of L2 speech but are trained to avoid serious pronunciation errors.
