24.782, Books: Mandarin-accented Dutch Prosody: He

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:40:46
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Mandarin-accented Dutch Prosody: He

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Title: Mandarin-accented Dutch Prosody 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Xuliang He

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930935 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 21.23 Comment: only available through Internet

Abstract:

The dissertation reports on two perception experiments (Experiments 1 & 2) and
three production experiments (Experiments 3, 4 & 5) that explore the phonology
and phonetics of the prosody of Mandarin-accented Dutch. Experiment 1 was
conducted to see how well Chinese speakers of Dutch (CSD) identify the correct
accentuation patterns in Dutch sentences, while Experiment 2 explored the
extent to which they are able to identify the most appropriate intonation
contour for sentences in context. Experiment 3 studied their choice of
intonation melody in the production of seven ‘intonational idioms’. Experiment
4 investigated how CSDs produced Dutch monosyllabic Falls, Rises and
Fall-rises under variation of the availability of sonorant sounds. Experiment
5 studied how different types of focus affected the pronunciation of falling
intonation. The perception experiments showed that CSDs do not know what
intonation pattern to use and what words to accent when faced with
contextualized sentences. This finding reveals that CSDs could not be expected
to produce correct prosody in Dutch even if their command of the phonetics was
perfect. Experiment 3 showed that this conclusion is correct on the basis of a
production experiment, where CSDs failed to produce the right melody in
‘intonational idioms’. Together with Experiments 4 and 5, this experiment also
showed that CSDs do not command the phonetic routines used by native speakers
and often transfer L1 prosody to their Dutch. The one exception was the lack
of any transfer from Mandarin in the pronunciation of pitch falls as a
function of focus. This dissertation will be of interest to all those working
on phonetics, prosody, Dutch and Mandarin Chinese phonology as well as second
language learning.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Second Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Dutch (nld)

Written In: English  (eng)

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