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Appropriate Tone Accent Production in L2-Swedish by L1-Speakers of Somali

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

It has been suggested that speakers with an L1 with lexical tones may have an advantage when it comes to perceptually discriminating between different tones in another tone language (Kaan, Wayland, Bao & Barkley, 2007). Other studies in L2-learning show that this is not entirely the case (van Dommelen & Husby 2009, So & Best 2010). A model of typological pitch prominence (Schaefer & Darcy, 2013) suggests that speakers of an L1 with a higher pitch prominence can perceive tonal contrast in another tone language better than those with an L1 of a lower pitch prominence. This study addresses the question: if Somali L1-speakers make a systematical distinction in the tonal pattern when producing Swedish words with the two tonal accents – as both languages are of similar pitch prominence according to Schaefer and Darcy – and also to what extent they produce a tonal pattern assigned to either one of the tone accents. The adequate distinction is identified as such by native speakers/listeners of Swedish. Results revealed that a big discrepancy still remains between the number of correct identifications of the stimuli produced by the L1-speakers of Swedish and those produced by L2-speakers of Swedish with Somali as their L1. Having a typologically similar L1 does not seem to give enough support to handle the tone accent distinction in Swedish L2 adequately.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

722-736

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics

Volym

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Concordia University, Department of Education, COPAL

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2292-4248