TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Jügler, Jeanin A1 - Zimmerer, Frank A1 - Trouvain, Jürgen A1 - Möbius, Bernd ED - Morgan, Nelson T1 - The Perceptual Effect of L1 Prosody Transplantation on L2 Speech: The Case of French Accented German T2 - Proceedings of Interspeech 2016. San Francisco, USA. 8–12 Sep, 2016 N2 - Research has shown that language learners are not only challenged by segmental differences between their native language (L1) and the second language (L2). They also have problems with the correct production of suprasegmental structures, like phone/syllable duration and the realization of pitch. These difficulties often lead to a perceptible foreign accent. This study investigates the influence of prosody transplantation on foreign accent ratings. Syllable duration and pitch contour were transferred from utterances of a male and female German native speaker to utterances of ten French native speakers speaking German. Acoustic measurements show that French learners spoke with a significantly lower speaking rate. As expected, results of a perception experiment judging the accentedness of 1) German native utterances, 2) unmanipulated and 3) manipulated utterances of French learners of German suggest that the transplantation of the prosodic features syllable duration and pitch leads to a decrease in accentedness rating. These findings confirm results found in similar studies investigating prosody transplantation with different L1 and L2 and provide a beneficial technique for (computer-assisted) pronunciation training. KW - Deutsch als Fremdsprache KW - Fremdsprachenlernen KW - Französisch KW - Prosodie KW - Second Language Learning KW - Prosody Transplantation KW - French KW - German Y1 - 2016 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59034 SN - 1990-9772 SS - 1990-9772 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1268 DO - https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1268 SP - 67 EP - 71 PB - International Speech Communication Association CY - Baixas ER -