Ultimate Attainment of Second Language Articles: A Case Study of an Endstate Second Language Turkish-English Speaker

Autor/inn/en	Snape, Neal; Kupisch, Tanja
Titel	Ultimate Attainment of Second Language Articles: A Case Study of an Endstate Second Language Turkish-English Speaker
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 26 (2010) 4, S.527-548 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658310377102
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Communication; Nouns; Morphemes; Second Language Learning; Phonetic Analysis; Case Studies; Turkish; Form Classes (Languages); Role; Intonation; English (Second Language); Computer Software; Transfer of Training; Linguistic Theory; Interlanguage; Suprasegmentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonale Kommunikation; Morphem; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Phonetic method; Lautanalytische Methode; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Türkisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Rollen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Linguistische Theorie; Zielsprache
Abstract	An area of considerable interest in second language (L2) acquisition is the difficulties learners face with the acquisition of articles. This article examines the role of prosody in the acquisition of articles by an endstate L2 English speaker focusing on the free morphemes "the" and "a". In order to analyse the articles produced by a Turkish speaker named SD, we used the Praat (Boersma and Weenink, 2006) phonetic analysis software to determine the prosodic shape of each article in article + noun configurations and article + adjective + noun configurations. The aim of the analysis is to see whether a more detailed analysis of the data would be fully consistent with the strong or weak interpretation of the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis. The findings of our analysis show that SD produces a large percentage of stressed articles, which are non target-like. We discuss the implications of our analysis for the interlanguage representation of articles by SD as well as the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis. (Contains 8 notes, 9 tables, and 12 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10