Perception and production of L2 prosody by Swedish learners - Summary and application to the teaching using Japanese and Chinese data

• The present paper is about the perception and production of L2 prosody by Swedish learners with focus on L2 Chinese and Japanese by the author. It gives the summary of the author’s previous and ongoing studies on the topic as well as discussion and application to teaching. Swedish L2 prosody is characterized by the upward pitch movement, i.e. preference of F0 rise to F0 fall, preference of upstep to downstep, and lack of a sharp F0 fall in their production. Furthermore, the Swedish learners have a difficulty in distinguishing F0 rise from F0 fall in perception.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

L2 prosody

Swedish learners

L2 Japanese

L2 Chinese

teaching

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)