Perceptual and acoustic correlates of Russian accent in Czech

0565903 - PSÚ 2023 ES eng A - Abstract
Nudga, Natalia - Chládková, Kateřina
Perceptual and acoustic correlates of Russian accent in Czech.
Book of Abstracts. New Sounds 2022. Barcelona: University of Barcelona, 2022 - (Carlet, A.; Fabra, L.; Gavaldà, N.; De Witte, W.). s. 120-120
[International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech /10./. 20.04.2022-22.04.2022, Barcelona]
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
https://www.ub.edu/newsounds2022/

Sounding native in L2 is, for many learners, an almost unachievable goal, and even L2 users whose speech is highly intelligible can speak with a considerable degree of foreign accent [1]. Accent rating is affected by various phonemic and phonetic divergences [1-2]. Here we focus on L1 Russian learners of L2 Czech and aim to identify and quantify the cues that lead to perception of foreign accentedness. To assess the noticeability of deviations in their L2 speech, Russian learners of Czech (n=10, 5 F) were recorded reading a text in Czech. In a subsequent perception test, native Czech listeners (n=44) rated the extent of foreign accent on a continuum from 0 (no accent) to 100 (very strong accent) and commented which speech phenomena revealed the non-Czech origin of the speakers.
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