First language attrition and maintenance in the accents of native speakers of English living in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | In my paper I present the results of a foreign accent rating experiment, showing that the Anglophone expatriates‘ speech is perceived as sounding less native-like than that of the control native speakers. I investigate the characteristics of several potentially vulnerable variables – the duration of word-initial plosive VOTs, word-final obstruent (de)voicing, and retention of dental fricatives – in two word-list task datasets obtained from the expatriates and the controls. I conclude that the accents of the expatriates exhibit both signs of first language attrition and of language maintenance efforts. |
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