Detailed Information on Publication Record
2018
First language attrition and maintenance in the accents of native speakers of English living in the Czech Republic
SUČKOVÁ, MagdaBasic information
Original name
First language attrition and maintenance in the accents of native speakers of English living in the Czech Republic
Authors
SUČKOVÁ, Magda (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Accents 2018 : 12th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, Łódź, 29 Nov - 1 Dec, 2018, 2018
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
Poland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105619
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
first language attrition; first language maintenance; foreign accent; voice onset time
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 23/1/2019 19:55, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
In my paper I present the results of a foreign accent rating experiment, showing that the Anglophone expatriates‘ speech is perceived as sounding less native-like than that of the control native speakers. Next, I investigate the characteristics of several potentially vulnerable variables – the duration of word-initial plosive VOTs, word-final obstruent (de)voicing, and retention of dental fricatives – in two word-list task datasets obtained from the expatriates and the controls. I conclude that the accents of the expatriates exhibit both signs of first language attrition (manifested as shortening of VOTs) and of language maintenance efforts (manifested as enunciation of word-initial and word-final lenis plosives, and of dental fricatives). I complement the results with extracts from the expatriates‘ personal narratives.
Links
| MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU |
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