The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
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2015
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Leemann, Adrian
Kolly, Marie-José
Schmid, Stephan
Dellwo, Volker
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Trends in Phonetics and Phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe
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363-376
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Peter Lang
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Bern
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This paper aims at investigating whether orthographic input affects the pronunciation
of second language learners of Danish in terms of assimilation over
word boundaries. With regard to Danish, this field of research is particularly
interesting, because there is a high discrepancy between the orthography and
pronunciation of Danish (Davidsen-Nielsen, 2003), and this discrepancy is prominent in assimilation across word boundaries. Individual and group Audio
recordings of 12 Swiss university students of Danish as a foreign language
were analysed for assimilation across word boundaries in 11 selected phrases
that are usually assimilated in first language speakers. The results show that
orthography has a different effect on the realization of vowels as compared to
the realization of consonants. Furthermore, an interaction of speech style was
found: Whereas for consonants, orthography has a lower effect on spontaneous
speech than on read speech, for vowels, orthography is similarly influential
in all recording conditions.
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Second language acquisition, Pronunciation, Orthography
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English
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Ritzau, U. (2015). The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish. In A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, & V. Dellwo (Eds.), Trends in Phonetics and Phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe (pp. 363–376). Peter Lang. http://hdl.handle.net/11654/17932