The literature on the influence of L2 orthography on abilingual’s pronunciation allows one to make predictions on what features of L2 pronunciation are likely to be impacted by it. This paper analyses the speech of 10 L1 Swedish L2 English late bilinguals performing one reading task and two tasks involving free speech in English. The speakers were predicted to realize /z/ as [s] when <s> represented /z/. All instances of /z/ spelled <s> were retrieved and transcribed in PRAAT. The number of substitutions for each speaker was calculated as a proportion of the total number of instances separately for reading and spontaneous speech. A 2-sample two-tailed z-test for proportions (p<0.05) was used to assess whether the two proportions were different. No difference was found in all speakers. This suggests that the degree of orthographic influence is fixed regardless of the presence of immediate orthographic input. Previous studies’ findings have contradicted these results, and this is discussed as a result of this study’s data containing connected speech as opposed to isolated words and phrases.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-68852 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Cavallo, Sveva Giulia Mariapaola |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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