Trends in Phonetics and Phonology
Studies from German-speaking Europe
Edited By Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid and Volker Dellwo
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- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 406 pp.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
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Abstract
Neurocognitive studies revealed that during their first year of life, children develop language-specific phoneme discrimination skills, which also influence their L2 perception and production skills. This perceptual narrowing in early childhood seems to explain the frequent occurrence of foreign accents in adults. Research in L2 learning has, however, shown that it is still possible to overcome such difficulties through intensive pronunciation training. In light of these findings, we tested the effects of a specific form of pronunciation training (based on electronic modification of the language input) on the German pronunciation of five selected American students over a period of four weeks. On the basis of audio recordings before and after the training phase, we conducted acoustic analyses on the subjects’ realization of the vowels /yː eː øː ə ɔ/ with a total amount of 50 tokens. The students’ speech samples were further evaluated by eight German native speakers with regard to perceived improvements in individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels) and suprasegmental features (rhythm and intonation). The main objectives of these analyses were to determine 1) whether the training method improves subjects’ L2 pronunciation performance and 2) whether native speakers are sensitive to acoustically measurable features of vowels.
Keywords
Pronunciation training, phonetic learning, L2 speech perception, L2 speech production, foreign accentedness
* Corresponding author: milena.insam@uni-graz.at, Tel: +43 316 380 8189
a Department of English Studies, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 36/II, 8010 Graz, Austria
b Signal Processing...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions