Global foreign accent rating of code-switched and L2-only sentences

Authors

  • Šárka Šimáčková Palacký University Olomouc
  • Václav Jonáš Podlipský

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/rela-2016-0009

Keywords:

phonetic interference, bilingual mode, code-switching, voice onset time

Abstract

Recent studies of short-term phonetic interference suggest that code-switching can lead to momentary increases in L1 influence on L2. In an earlier study using a single acoustic measure (VOT), we found that Czech EFL learners’ pronunciation of English voiceless stops had shorter, i.e. more L1-Czech-like, VOTs in codeswitched compared to L2-only sentences. The first aim of the current study was to test the prediction that native listeners would judge the code-switched English productions as more foreign-accented than the L2-only productions. The results provide only weak support for this prediction. The second aim was to test whether more native-like VOT values would correlate with improved accentedness scores. This was confirmed for sentence-initial stops.

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2016-06-30

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Šimáčková, Šárka, & Podlipský, V. J. (2016). Global foreign accent rating of code-switched and L2-only sentences. Research in Language, 14(2), 149–164. https://doi.org/10.1515/rela-2016-0009

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