Prosody and foreign language learning UvA韵律与外语学习 UVA.pptVIP

Prosodic marking of information status in L1 and L2 dr.Laurent Rasier Université catholique de Louvain laurent.rasier@uclouvain.be Introduction Little attention paid to prosody in L2 Important role in ??foreign accent?? Social communicative consequences Research program: Learning process of prosody? Difficulties? Factors influencing L2 prosody? Use of (de)accentuation to signal information status in L2 Dutch L2 French Accent in L2 Distributional studies of accent in L2: Overproduction in L2 Overgeneralization of rules, transfer Markedness Accent in L2 Dutch and L2 French: Poorly studied Difficult to acquire Research questions Germanic vs. Romance languages: Germ. lgues: accent // news value Rom. lgues: accent ≠ news value Possible impact on L2 acquisition of accent Research questions: Accentuation in L1 Dutch ≠ accentuation in L1 French? Impact on acquisition of L2 Dutch and L2 French? What about prosodic transfer? Methodology Experimental accent placement test in L1 L2 Description of geometrical figures Variation of name and/of colour 40 informants, advanced level 20 French-speaking learners of Dutch 20 Dutch-speaking learners of French Non-specialists (BAC2 students of economics) Methodology (2) Situational contrasts Control news value: New: contextually unknwon Given: contextually known Contrastive: con-trast with preceding Methodological framework Accent patterns in L1 Dutch Accent patterns in L1 French Typology of accentuation rules Predictions (based on Eckmann 1987): Marked patterns more difficult than unmarked ones If marked in L2 but less marked than in L1, then not difficult The more marked in L1, the less likely to be transferred to L2 Accentuation in L2 Dutch/L2 French L2 Dutch: 48% correct L2 French: 75% correct Easier D ? F than F ? D Accent patterns in L1/L2 Dutch Deaccentuation in L1/L2 Dutch Accent patterns L1/L2 French Over-/Underuse in L2 French Overuse: Narrow focus Accent on each word Underuse: Bridge accent Extended bridge a