Search results for "accent"
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Mocking fakeness
2022
Abstract Phonetic resources, like dialects and accents, are used in ethnic humour to build up a recognisable character that pokes fun at the stereotypes associated with a particular identity, sometimes with critical and political undertones. In this article, we examine the manipulation of one such resource, aspiration, used in performing and mocking one such clichéd character, called the fake Sámi. This character has a contested history in Finnish tourism and marketing practices, and is embedded in a long-standing debate about who can use emblems of Sámi identity for economic purposes. Adopting a sociophonetic language regard and folk linguistics approaches (Preston 2010; Niedzielski & …
Svetlana Rönkkö ja Tove Hansson : vieraan aksentin performanssi mediahuumorin resurssina
2016
The paper deals with foreign accent performance in two popular comedy shows in Finnish television. Two different foreign accents of L2 Finnish – Russian and Swedish – were performed by two fictional characters: Svetlana Rönkkö, a Russian-born woman, and Tove Hansson, a Swedish speaking woman coming from the Åland Islands. Our main focus is on the empirical analysis of the phonetic features in these performances. The features are analysed as such, in relation to the empirically studied, “authentic”, features of L1 Russian and Swedish Finnishes. The performances are looked as folk linguistic (Nieldzielski & Preston 2003) analyses of the most prominent indexes of the social groups in focus, dr…
L1 listeners’ perception of L2 pronunciation: effect of prosody on accentedness ratings in Swedish
2018

 
 
 This paper reports on a study in which L1 speakers (n = 53) of Swedish rated the accentedness of read-aloud sentences produced by L2 speakers (n = 6) of Swedish. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of certain prosodic features on the accentedness ratings. These features include Swedish tone accents and and deviant speech rhythm (e.g. lack of primary stress, and realization of multiple stresses). The results reveal that utterances with deviant speech rhythm yielded perceptions of stronger foreign accent than utterances with target-like rhythm. As for the tone accents, their effect on the scores were non-existent or only marginal. As missing tone accents ha…
Middle School Students’ Perceptions Towards Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
2014
In 2010, a heated political controversy centered on the Arizona Department of Education's desire to prohibit "heavily accented or ungrammatical teachers” from teaching English Language Learners (Blum & Johnson 2012; Jordan 2010). However, although an administrative practice such as this would greatly affect students’, their attitudes towards linguistic diversity in the classroom have been largely neglected. By surveying 94 middle school students in a public school district in the southwestern United States, this study sought to understand students’ attitudes regarding teachers’ and classmates’ accents and the factors that may influence them, such as their language background and the presenc…
Sztuka dopełnienia. O recytacjach poematu Fortepian Szopena Cypriana Norwida
2016
Cyprian Norwid był doskonałym mówcą oraz recytatorem poezji. Jeszcze w okresie pobytu w Polsce deklamował poezje autorów emigracyjnych oraz krajowych. Zwyczaj ten kontynuował, będąc na emigracji we Francji. Poeta uważał, że deklamacja to nie tylko jakiś umiejętny „wygłaszania-sposób”, ale dopełnienie, bez którego niemożliwe jest właściwe odczytanie poezji. Dopełnienie nie jest jedynie prostym uzupełnieniem, lecz spełnieniem idei, przybliżeniem się do ideału; jednakże do tego celu potrzeba sztuki deklamacji, którą Norwid nazywał reklamacji-sztuką. Autorka artykułu przeprowadza analizę porównawczą dwu recytacji poematu Cypriana Norwida Fortepian Szopena: Zbigniewa Zapasiewicza oraz Ireny Jun.…
Bryter finlandssvenskarna när de talar finska?
2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate if fluently bilingual Finland-Swedish speakers have an accent in their Finnish, and whether this possible accent can be heard by native Finnish listeners. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate what acoustical features characterize a possible accent in the Finnish spoken by Finland-Swedish speakers. To answer these questions two studies were carried out: a listening test with 55 native Finnish listeners who were asked to categorize 20 speakers as native or nonnative speakers of Finnish, and if the speakers were regarded as non-native, how strong the speaker’s accent was: weak, moderate, or strong. The 20 speakers included native Finnish informan…
L1 listeners’ perception of L2 pronunciation : effect of prosody on accentedness ratings in Swedish
2017
Taking it a tad further : comparing English and Swedish course materials in terms of presenting prosody and accent variation
2011
Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena on prosodian ja aksenttivariaatioiden esiintyminen lukion englannin ja ruotsin oppikirjamateriaaleissa. Ääntämisen opetusta ja osaamista on koulutuksen piirissä ensisijaisesti tutkittu segmentaalien näkökulmaa painottaen, vaikka nimenomaisesti prosodisten ainesten on todettu vaikuttavan puheen ymmärrettävyyteen segmentaalitarkkuutta enemmän. Aksenttivariaatiot ovat niin ikään vaikuttava tekijä puheen suurien linjojen piirissä, ja niiden eroihin vaikuttaa segmentaalimuutosten lisäksi prosodinen vaihtelu. Prosodian käsite itsessään sisältää yksittäisten äänteiden yliset ilmiöt, jotka voidaan jakaa kolmeen osa-alueeseen: äänteiden kvantiteettiin (paino ja pituus), kva…