Das deutsche Sololied im 19. Jahrhundert. Untersuchungen zu Sprache und Musik

Dürr, Walther

doi:10.2307/849444

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“…This might be related to differences in the speech elicitation tasks used in the present (cartoon narration task) and in previous studies (single-word reading task in AlDahri, 2013), considering that plosive tokens produced in sentences tend to have overall shorter VOT durations compared to tokens produced in isolation (e.g. Braun, 1996; Lisker and Abramson, 1967). This might explain why the monolingual MSA speakers in our study exhibited shorter VOT durations compared to what has been previously reported for MSA.…”

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L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals

Alharbi

Foltz

Kornder

et al. 2022

Second Language Research

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While much research has examined second language (L2) phonetic acquisition, less research has examined first language (L1) attrition in terms of the voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops. The current study examined L2 acquisition and L1 attrition in the VOT of word-initial voiceless stops among late English–Arabic and Arabic–English bilinguals in order to explore the role of phonetic similarity in L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of speech. The study included 60 participants: 15 monolingual Arabic speakers, 15 monolingual English speakers, 15 English–Arabic bilinguals and 15 Arabic–English bilinguals. The bilinguals had been living in their L2 environment for more than 15 years. The participants narrated two cartoons in Arabic and/or three in English. The monolingual groups’ results revealed clear cross-language differences in the VOT of voiceless plosives between the two languages. Phonetic similarity affected L2 acquisition in that those L2 sounds that were close in phonetic space to L1 sounds (i.e. /t/ and /k/) were more difficult to acquire than those that were dissimilar to L1 sounds (i.e. /p/). However, L1 attrition showed an asymmetric pattern, occurring only in the English–Arabic bilinguals’ productions of the English /k/. We suggest that markedness might contribute to explaining this asymmetry.

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confidence: 67%