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Rhythmic contrast between Swedish and Albanian as an explanation for L2-speech?

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Author

Editor

  • Elena Babatsouli
  • David Ingram

Summary, in English

Based on observations of the rhythmic structure of L2-speech produced by L1-speakers of Albanian – which suggest the occurrence of transfer – a study is presented here that compares durational aspects between the two languages. In order to do this, speech read by Swedish and Albanian L1-speakers was recorded and investigated, and normalized durational factors were analysed. The results, however, do not support the assumption that there is variation in the rhythmic structure between the two languages. According to the results, transfer cannot explain previous observations.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

396-402

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Institute of monolingual and bilingual speech, Chania, Greece

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • language rhythm
  • prominence
  • transfer
  • Albanian
  • Swedish

Conference name

International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015 (ISMBS 2015)

Conference date

2015-09-07 - 2015-09-10

Conference place

Chania, Kreta, Greece

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-618-82351-0-6