The Attainment of an English Accent: British and American Features in Advanced German Learners

ISBN-13: 9783631720998 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 296 str.

Bongartz, Christiane

Opis

This book investigates inconsistencies in the British and American accents of advanced German learners of English. It takes a variationist approach based on extra- and intra-linguistic factors as potential explanations for variability and contributes to understanding the status of L1 transfer in language learners at "ultimate attainment".

Spis treści

Variation, transfer and ultimate attainment - Cross-linguistic comparison (British and American English, German) and transfer opportunities for German learners - Methodology (acoustic and auditory analyses; statistics; Rbrul; pairwise t-tests) - Persisting L1 transfer at a late stage of acquisition - Free variation

O autorze

Alexander Kautzsch is a linguist in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Regensburg. His main research interests include phonological second language acquisition, English in Namibia, and the historical evolution of African American English.