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German pitches in English: Production and perception of cross-varietal differences in L2*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2012

CHRISTIANE ULBRICH
CHRISTIANE ULBRICH*
Affiliation:
Philipps University Marburg, Germany & University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
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Address for correspondence: Institute of German Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg, Deutschhausstrasse 3, D-35032 Marburg, Germany[email protected]
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Abstract

The present study examines the effect of cross-varietal prosodic characteristics of two German varieties, Northern Standard German (NG) and Swiss German (SG), on the production and perception of foreign accent in L2 Belfast English. The analysis of production data revealed differences in the realisation of nuclear pitch accents in L1 German and L2 English produced by the two groups of speakers. Foreign accent ratings of L2 English sentences produced by NG speakers with no or extensive experience, native Belfast English speakers and SG speakers were obtained from native Belfast English listeners. The findings showed that segmental and prosodic characteristics play a role in the perception of foreign accent. In addition, they can be more similar across languages than across varieties of the same language. This in turn affects which and how cross-varietal differences in L1 impact on the degree of perceived foreign accentedness. The results are consistent with a usage-based account.

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acquisitionprosodycross-variationGermanEnglish
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Research Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 16 , Issue 2: Computational Modeling of Bilingualism , April 2013 , pp. 397 - 419
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I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments that greatly contributed to improving the final version of the paper. This research was supported by the U.K. British Academy (BA) through grant no. SG4501 to University of Ulster. This support is gratefully acknowledged. I thank the University of Ulster for the use of the Phonetics Laboratory, and all subjects for their participation.

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