Are Indonesians Sensitive to Contrastive Accentuation Below the Word Level?
It is impossible in Indonesian to express narrow-focus meta-linguistic contrastson subparts of words (whether meaningless syllables or meaningful morphemes).In English and Dutch this possibility exists, as in I meant coffin not coffer or I saidmeaningful not meaningless. We predict from this circumstance that Indonesianlearners of Dutch will not be sensitive to this type of prosodic contrast marking atthe sub-word level. Native Dutch speakers should be able to make functional useof this type of contrast. We conducted an experiment with thirteen Indonesianlearners of Dutch with lengths of resid... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Journal:earticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
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University of Indonesia
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Schlagwörter: | Indonesia / word-prosodic typology / stress / second-language acquisition of prosodic functions / meta-linguistic contrast / Indonesian / focus / Dutch / Accent |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27028186 |
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Link(s) : | https://www.neliti.com/publications/180970/are-indonesians-sensitive-to-contrastive-accentuation-below-the-word-level |