Global foreign accent rating of code-switched and L2-only sentences

• Authors: Šárka Šimáčková , Václav Jonáš Podlipský
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Recent studies of short-term phonetic interference suggest that code-switching can lead to momentary increases in L1 influence on L2. In an earlier study using a single acoustic measure (VOT), we found that Czech EFL learners’ pronunciation of English voiceless stops had shorter, i.e. more L1-Czech-like, VOTs in codeswitched compared to L2-only sentences. The first aim of the current study was to test the prediction that native listeners would judge the code-switched English productions as more foreign-accented than the L2-only productions. The results provide only weak support for this prediction. The second aim was to test whether more native-like VOT values would correlate with improved accentedness scores. This was confirmed for sentence-initial stops.

Keywords

EN

phonetic interference; bilingual mode; code-switching; voice onset time

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 149-164

Dates

published

2016-06-30

Contributors

author

Šárka Šimáčková

• Palacký University Olomouc

author

Václav Jonáš Podlipský

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rela-2016-0009