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L1 Swedish prominent syllable perception in Japanese words

In English

Författare

  • Hanna Bäckström

Summary, in English

This thesis investigates the perception of prominent syllables in Japanese words by native Swedish speakers. The study explores factors such as word type, pitch placement, and sentence structure that influence L1 Swedish speakers' accuracy in identifying the prominent syllable in Japanese words. The study also highlights the influence of linguistic context and individual variation on the perception of prominent syllables, and attempts to shed light on the complex interplay between native language phonological systems and the perception of foreign language prosody, in this instance, between Swedish and Japanese. The results implicate a varying degree of success among L1 Swedish speakers' ability to identify syllable prominence in Japanese words, with pitch- and word placement drastically determining the accuracy of said identification.

Publiceringsår

2024

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Examensarbete för kandidatexamen

Ämne

  • Languages and Literatures

Nyckelord

  • Japanese
  • Swedish
  • prosodic transfer
  • cross-linguistic transfer
  • positive transfer
  • interference
  • pitch-accent
  • phonology
  • intonation

Handledare

  • Benjamin Kirkland Macaulay