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Wilkerson, Miranda E.

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(In)variability in accent perception: A comparison of native and non-native speakers of German of varying proficiency on what constitutes "nativeness" of accent in German.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	(In)variability in accent perception: A comparison of native and non-native speakers of German of varying proficiency on what constitutes "nativeness" of accent in German./
Author:	Wilkerson, Miranda E.
Description:	180 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Monika Chavez.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-04A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3261369

(In)variability in accent perception: A comparison of native and non-native speakers of German of varying proficiency on what constitutes "nativeness" of accent in German.
Wilkerson, Miranda E.

(In)variability in accent perception: A comparison of native and non-native speakers of German of varying proficiency on what constitutes "nativeness" of accent in German. - 180 p.

Adviser: Monika Chavez.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007.

This study provides insights applicable to second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, sociolinguistics, folk linguistics, phonetics, and phonology.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

(In)variability in accent perception: A comparison of native and non-native speakers of German of varying proficiency on what constitutes "nativeness" of accent in German.
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245 1 0 $a (In)variability in accent perception: A comparison of native and non-native speakers of German of varying proficiency on what constitutes "nativeness" of accent in German.
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520 $a This study examines how (1) 62 raters with no experience or instruction in German (naive raters); (2) 318 first-, second-, and third-year college learners of German; and (3) 61 native speakers of German perceived (a) NSs' and (b) NNSs' German speech production in terms of "accent."
520 $a Participants completed a three-part questionnaire, whose exact constellation differed by rater group but overall solicited (a) pre-rating descriptions of German spoken by Americans and English spoken by German speakers; (b) ratings of 7 speech samples (5 NNS; 2 NS) according to how close to native they sound and how comprehensible and pleasant they are to the raters as well as to imagined NSs or NNSs; and (c) post-rating descriptions of speech features which influenced these ratings. Results show that: (1) Characterizations of German speech by NNS raters and characterizations of American English speech by NS raters were stereotypical, reaffirming current research on perceptual dialectology. (2) NS raters were not infallible when identifying NNS speech. (3) All NNS rater groups except third-year learners performed significantly better at identifying NNS than at identifying NS speech. In fact, third-year learners significantly outperformed all raters, NSs included, at identifying NS speech. (4) NSs' judgments of NNS speech samples appeared to be driven by standards other than those used by NNSs, indicating a special perceptual acuteness for NS raters vis-a-vis strength degree of accent. (5) Post-rating explanations of which features of speech had influenced their ratings revealed that all raters, during the actual rating process, called on very specific, less stereotyped cues, such as the naturalness of pauses or expressiveness. These specific cues were rarely, if ever, cited in the pre-rating descriptions of German speech. Analyses further indicated that listeners may tune into different cues depending on the degree of their own as well as a given speaker's proficiency. (6) NNS raters' personal judgments of comprehensibility and pleasantness of accent diverged from the judgments they projected for NS listeners confirming that perceptual sensitivity, as viewed by these raters, varies according to proficiency.
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