The present study examines native and nonnative perceptual
processing of semantic information conveyed by prosodic
prominence. <br>Five groups of German learners of English each listened
to one of 5 experimental conditions. Three conditions differed in place
of focus accent in the sentence and two conditions were with spliced
stimuli. <br>The experiment condition was presented first in the learners’
L1 (German) and then in a similar set in the L2 (English). The effect
of the accent condition and of the length and position of the target in
the sentence was evaluated in a probe recognition task. <br>In both the L1
and L2 tasks there was no significant effect in any of the five focus
conditions. Target position and target word length had an effect in the
L1 task. Word length did not affect accuracy rates in the L2 task. For
probe recognition in the L2, word length and the position of the target
interacted with the focus condition.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:876 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Sennema, Anke, van de Vijver, Ruben, Carroll, Susanne E., Zimmer-Stahl, Anne |
| Contributors | Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Potsdam> |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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