Modal Particles in Dutch as a Second Language. Evidence from a Perception Experiment

The perception of modal particles in Dutch was studied, contrasting native and speakers of Dutch as a second language (DSL). According to expectations, non-native subjects turned out to have more significant problems with selecting the best fitting stimulus in the contexts designed to evoke a modal use of the target word. Contrary to expectation, however, the non-native subjects had problems with non-modal contexts as well. Work on spontaneous speech elicited from DSL-speakers with Spanish as L1 revealed an unexpected but clear hierarchy in the acquisition of modal particles. The results are t... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Johanneke Caspers
Ton van der Wouden
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Reihe/Periodikum: Linguistik Online, Vol 44, Iss 4 (2010)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Bern Open Publishing
Schlagwörter: Computational linguistics. Natural language processing / P98-98.5 / Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar / P101-410
Sprache: Deutsch
Englisch
Spanish
Französisch
Italian
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.44.407

The perception of modal particles in Dutch was studied, contrasting native and speakers of Dutch as a second language (DSL). According to expectations, non-native subjects turned out to have more significant problems with selecting the best fitting stimulus in the contexts designed to evoke a modal use of the target word. Contrary to expectation, however, the non-native subjects had problems with non-modal contexts as well. Work on spontaneous speech elicited from DSL-speakers with Spanish as L1 revealed an unexpected but clear hierarchy in the acquisition of modal particles. The results are taken as an indication that Dutch particles, as well as their interaction with prosody, merit more attention in didactic materials aimed at DSL-speakers.