Assessing foreign language speech rhythm in multilingual learners

Gabriel, Christoph; Stahnke, Johanna; Thulke, Jeanette

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“…French and German differ crucially with respect to their overall prosodic shape: With regard to global speech rhythm, French belongs to the group of syllable-timed languages, which are characterized by a strong preference for regular sequences of CV syllables and the absence of vowel reduction. German, by contrast, is a stress-timed language, which presents more complex syllable structures and regular reduction of unstressed vowels ( [1]). As for intonation, French has a phrase-based system with the Accentual Phrase (AP) as its basic unit, which is mapped to the underlying tonal pattern /aLHiLH*/ ( [2], [3], [4]), while German is a pitch accent language with the F0 contour being determined by the positions of metrically strong syllables in prosodic words ( [5], [6], [7], [8]).…”

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Intonation and (re)syllabification in L2 French interrogatives produced by L1 German learners: Comparing different proficiency levels

Gabriel¹,

Meisenburg²,

Wocker³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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The study investigates the prosody of French interrogatives produced by L1 German learners of three different proficiency levels. Control data from French native speakers are taken into account. The materials analyzed were recorded using two different versions of a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) for the advanced learners and the native controls and a scripted version thereof in the form of a screenplay for the beginners. It is shown that despite the general difference between the intonation systems of (phrase-based) French and (word-based) German the learners mostly produce well identifiable interrogative contours, and their data do not differ significantly from the native control data regarding the use of F0, measured in terms of pitch range and variability (Pitch Dynamism Quotient, PDQ). However, the learners differ significantly from the native speakers in presenting a lower speech rate and in their way of (re)syllabifying their utterances: they produce less target-like instances of liaison and enchaînement and more word-initial glottalizations. This suggests that, at least for short speech acts such as we analyzed, the learners' challenge to produce the prosody of French interrogatives in a target-like way rather refers to the syllabic than to the intonational level.

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Intonation and (re)syllabification in L2 French interrogatives produced by L1 German learners: Comparing different proficiency levels

Gabriel¹,

Meisenburg²,

Wocker³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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The Making of MEZ – Multilingual Development: A Longitudinal Perspective. Study Design and Methods

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Multilingual Development: A Longitudinal Perspective – Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf (MEZ)

Brandt

Lagemann

Rahbari

2017

European Journal of Applied Linguistics

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The longitudinal study “Multilingual Development: A Longitudinal Perspective” (MEZ) follows two cohorts of secondary school students with monolingual German, German-Turkish and German-Russian language backgrounds over the course of three years. The project investigates language-based, personal, and contextual factors that influence students’ multilingual development and examines how multilingual skills are related to other dimensions of educational success (e.g., transition decisions and processes in the educational system). The objective of MEZ is to identify starting points for developing strategies to increase young people’s chances for educational success.

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Assessing foreign language speech rhythm in multilingual learners

Cited by 3 publications

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Intonation and (re)syllabification in L2 French interrogatives produced by L1 German learners: Comparing different proficiency levels

Intonation and (re)syllabification in L2 French interrogatives produced by L1 German learners: Comparing different proficiency levels

The Making of MEZ – Multilingual Development: A Longitudinal Perspective. Study Design and Methods

Multilingual Development: A Longitudinal Perspective – Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf (MEZ)

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