Patterns of Prominence in L2 : Observations from Learners of Swedish with L1S of Diverse Prominence Properties

Mechtild Tronnier; Elisabeth Zetterholm

Patterns of Prominence in L2 : Observations from Learners of Swedish with L1S of Diverse Prominence Properties

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Abstract

Swedish has – like other Germanic languages – flexible stress placement, which underlies morphological rules and is also based on the
individual word’s origin. The achievement of the correct usage when learning Swedish is challenging. As second language learners of Swedish in the classrooms present speakers of a variety of first
languages (L1s), the opportunity has been taken to have a closer look on how stress in L2 is handled. For that reason, learners with Somali, Albanian, Vietnamese and Farsi as their first language were recorded when speaking L2-Swedish. These languages exemplify a variety of systems in regard to the usage of stress. The recorded speech was analysed and the observed way of administering stress in L2 was compared to the organisation of stress in L1.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Publisher	University of Glasgow
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-0-85261-942-1, 978-0-85261-941-4
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015) - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 2015 Aug 10 → 2015 Aug 14

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ISSN (Print)	2412-0669

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Conference	The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	2015/08/10 → 2015/08/14

Subject classification (UKÄ)

General Language Studies and Linguistics

Free keywords

prominence
stress placement
stress systems
Foreign accent
L2-prosody

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Tronnier, M & Zetterholm, E 2015, Patterns of Prominence in L2 : Observations from Learners of Swedish with L1S of Diverse Prominence Properties. in Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.. University of Glasgow, The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2015/08/10. <http://icphs2015.info/pdfs/Papers/ICPHS0823.pdf>

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Patterns of Prominence in L2 : Observations from Learners of Swedish with L1S of Diverse Prominence Properties

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