LINGUIST List 17.3153

Fri Oct 27 2006

Books: Phonetics/Sociolinguistics: Doel

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Directory         1.    K. van den Heuvel, How Friendly are the Natives?: Doel
Message 1: How Friendly are the Natives?: Doel
Date: 24-Oct-2006
From: K. van den Heuvel <lotlet.uu.nl>
Subject: How Friendly are the Natives?: Doel


Title: How Friendly are the Natives? Subtitle: An Evaluation of Native-speaker Judgements of Foreign-accented British and American English Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2006 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl

Author: Rias van den Doel Electronic: ISBN: 9789078328094 Pages: 354 Price: ---- free
Paperback: ISBN: 9789078328094 Pages: 354 Price: Europe EURO 28.43
Abstract:

LOT Dissertation Series 144

How Friendly are the Natives?An Evaluation of Native-speaker Judgements of Foreign-accented British andAmerican English

This study is the first ever to employ a large-scale Internet survey toinvestigate priorities in English pronunciation training. Well over 500native speakers from throughout the English-speaking world, including NorthAmerica, the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand, were asked to detectand evaluate Dutch pronunciation errors in sentences read by bilingualactors. Through the application of up-to-date statistical procedures, theseassessments were analysed and then used to construct hierarchies of errorfor pronunciation training in the most commonly taught varieties of Britishand American English.

The attitudes of the various groups of native speakers towards errordetection and evaluation were found to be strikingly different.Nevertheless, the findings indicate that almost all natives attachconsiderable significance to pronunciation errors that impedeintelligibility. In those cases where there is no loss of intelligibility,they often respond negatively to features that are socially marked innative varieties of English. This effect of stigmatisation was found todiffer considerably, for example, between countries such as the UnitedStates and Britain. Even non-native pronunciation errors that are verysimilar to features actually attested in respondents' own accents are notnecessarily judged more leniently.

In addition to discussing the effects of linguistic background on thejudgements of native speakers, this study also considers the errorassessments of Dutch teachers and students of English, and provides a briefoverview of pronunciation training in the Netherlands.

This research will be of interest not only to phoneticians andsociolinguists with an interest in second language acquisition, but also toteachers and students of English pronunciation and accent varieties.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics                             Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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