How do non-native speakers of Dutch differ from native speakers in pitch
accent placement? Previous investigations report over-accentuation, but there
is also evidence that non-native (L2) speakers have no problems accenting new
information and deaccenting given information. A text was read aloud… read more
Studies in bilingualism have shown that words activate form-similar neighbors in both first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Accordingly, we hypothesized that the degree of form similarity between L1–L2 word pairs causes a proportional amount of prosodic transfer in L2 speech production. Thus,… read more
A non-native accent in a second language is usually not restricted to the segmental domain — consonants and vowels — but is also noticeable in the suprasegmental domain, which includes phenomena such as word stress and sentence accent. The central question in this paper is whether advanced… read more
Dutch is a language with numerous modal particles, such as zeker in "Jij bent zeker Jan?" (Tou must be Jan'). The colouring that these unaccented modal particles add to the utterance is very hard to describe. The prediction that the acquisition of modal particles is difficult for learners of Dutch… read more