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Transcribing foreign-accented English

Transcribing foreign-accented English. SPAU 3343 Dr. Katz. Background . L1 influences on L2, or “foreign accent” Affected by many factors: -- Subject’s age, verbosity, linguistic experience, intellect, motivation, social situation -- Constraints from speech perception

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Transcribing foreign-accented English

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  1. Transcribing foreign-accented English SPAU 3343 Dr. Katz

  2. Background • L1 influences on L2, or “foreign accent” • Affected by many factors: -- Subject’s age, verbosity, linguistic experience, intellect, motivation, social situation -- Constraints from speech perception … and production

  3. Things to consider when transcribing • Foreign accents are complex • GAE sounds may be better in certain contexts than others (initial/medial/final; stressed vs. unstressed) • Suprasegmental patterns play a large role (phonemic length, tone, syllable vs. stress-timing, etc.)

  4. A sample corpus – “Mary passage” • Mary is only five and she loves to play in the water. This morning she got so dirty that I heard her mother call her in to take a bath. It was very early for I was still boiling water for my coffee. Also, there was still a little fog. After a while, however, Mary came across the path into my yard and sat down with me to eat an orange. As I had my second cup of coffee, I asked her if she had been bad. “No,” she said, “the dog had been the one.” He had gotten her so dirty she couldn’t brush it off.

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  6. Russian Example Mary is only five and she loves to play in the water. This morning she got so dirty that I heard her mother call her in to take a bath. It was very early for I was still boiling water for my coffee. Also, there was still a little fog. After a while, however, Mary came across the path into my yard and sat down with me to eat an orange. As I had my second cup of coffee, I asked her if she had been bad. “No,” she said, “the dog had been the one.” He had gotten her so dirty she couldn’t brush it off. (Note – some transcription is given later in this ppt)

  7. “How do I know what sounds he made?” A: Research!

  8. ..from our text materials…

  9. Books, websites

  10. Another resource • Speech accent archive (George Mason University) • Gives sound files of foreign accents and regional American accents for a short read English corpus  • A rather broad transcription is also provided for each case • http://accent.gmu.edu

  11. With this resource, you can select by speaker, region, or language inventory…

  12. Russian: Narrow Transcription

  13. Adherence to GAE phonological rules? (or not*) Partial devoiced liquid * No tap/flap* Aspiration of init vl stop Dark “l” Stop unexploded before stop

  14. Need more practice? • See samples - our webpage: https://www.utdallas.edu/speech-production-lab/links/phonetics-and-speech-science/

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