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Tendencies of Swedish word accent production by L2-learners with tonal and non-tonal L1

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Author

Editor

  • Eva Liina Asu
  • Lippus Pärtel

Summary, in English

A comparison between second language learners of Swedish, some of whom have an L1 with lexical tones, while the others do not, and their ability to produce adequate tonal word accents in Swedish is presented. The L1s in question are Farsi, Somali, Vietnamese and Thai. There is no clear evidence that it is easier to learn the correct Swedish word accent patterns and their correct application for speakers whose L1 is a tonal language of any sort. Instead, it does seem to be an advantage to be an L1-speaker of a particular type of tonal language.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

391-400

Publication/Series

Nordic prosody: proceedings of the XIth conferece, Tartu 2012

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Group

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • foreign accent
  • tonal typology
  • second language speech

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-631-64427-0