Perception of speech rhythm in second language: the case of rhythmically similar L1 and L2

Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00316

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“…Differences in rhythmic patterns between L1 and L2 speech have also been confirmed in several studies (Bond and Fokes, 1985;White & Mattys, 2007;Grenon & White, 2008;Ordin & Polyanskaya, 2015a). L2…”

Section: Cross-linguistic and Developmental Differences In Speech Ratmentioning

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“…English and German (the native languages of the listeners and the speakers who provided the timing patterns for "sasasa" stimuli in the study by Ordin and Polyanskaya, 2015a) exhibit similar rhythmic patterns.…”

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“…This is a small subset of a larger corpus of L2 speech collected and described by Ordin et al (2015a;2015b consisted of two parts: interview and sentence elicitation task. During the first part, the participants were asked ten questions -the same set of questions for every speaker -related to personal biography, music and reading preferences, educational choices, etc.…”

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“…Ordin and Polyanskaya (2014;2015a;2015b) and Tortel and Hirst (2010) investigated changes in durational ratios in the course of acquisition of L1 and L2 English. They clearly showed that durational variability increases as acquisition progresses.…”

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Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language

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We investigated the independent contribution of speech rate and speech rhythm to perceived foreign accent. To address this issue we used a resynthesis technique that allows neutralizing segmental and tonal idiosyncrasies between identical sentences produced by French learners of English at different proficiency levels and maintaining the idiosyncrasies pertaining to prosodic timing patterns. We created stimuli that 1) preserved the idiosyncrasies in speech rhythm while controlling for the differences in speech rate between the utterances; 2) preserved the idiosyncrasies in speech rate while controlling for the differences in speech rhythm between the utterances; 3) preserved the idiosyncrasies both in speech rate and speech rhythm. All the stimuli were created in intoned (with imposed intonational contour) and flat (with monotonized, constant F0) conditions. The original and the resynthesized sentences were rated by native speakers of English for degree of foreign accent.We found that both speech rate and speech rhythm influence the degree of perceived foreign accent, but the effect of speech rhythm is larger than that of rate. We also found that intonation enhances the perception of fine differences in rhythmic patterns but reduces the perceptual salience of fine differences in speech rate.

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Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language

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“…In the last few years, researchers in the area of phonetics and phonology became interested more and more in the properties of non-native speech rhythm and as a result, a myriad number of studies was conducted in order to investigate the influence of prior linguistic systems on the acquisition of a given foreign language speech rhythm, to name but a few: Gut (2003), Dellwo et al (2005), Ordin and Polyanskaya (2015). However, studies dealing with the acquisition of speech rhythm in L3 are very scant.…”

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Speech Rhythm Production In A Multilingual Setting

Alouache¹

2017

مجلة الأكاديمية للدراسات الاجتماعية والإنسانية

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Algerian learners majoring in English as a foreign language have already been exposed to a second standard language, French, early in their learning curriculum, in addition to their mother tongue, dialectal Arabic. This multilingual profile of Algeria has been proved to affect different aspects of English acquisition mainly in the area of phonetics and phonology. However, studies dealing with the influence of the previously linguistic systems on the production of L3 speech rhythm are very scant. Therefore, the present study is conducted to classify the interlanguage rhythm and to find out whether it is conceived as a stress-timed vs. syllable-timed dichotomy or as a continuum. Audio recordings of 63 third year Algerian EFL students at Mentouri Brothers University, Constantine were segmented into vowels and consonants' sequences, and their derived rhythm metrics (%V and ∆C) were calculated using PRAAT, speech analysis software. The results of the two measured rhythm metrics yield that the informants' speech rhythm is rather 'intermediate' , merging a stress-timed ∆C and a syllable-timed %V. Accordingly, this study reveals that crosslinguistic interference in the area of phonology touches not only segments but also speech rhythm.

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(Re-)viewing the Acquisition of Rhythm in the Light of L2 Phonological Theories

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2023

Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

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Perception of speech rhythm in second language: the case of rhythmically similar L1 and L2

Cited by 37 publications

References 49 publications

Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language

Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language

Speech Rhythm Production In A Multilingual Setting

(Re-)viewing the Acquisition of Rhythm in the Light of L2 Phonological Theories

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