EAN: 9783631720998

THE ATTAINMENT OF AN ENGLISH ACCENT - ALEXANDER...

This book investigates inconsistencies in the accent adopted by advanced German learners of
English with respect to differences between standard American and British English (rhoticity 
t-voicing  the vowels in the lexical sets «bath»  «lot» and «thought»). From a theoretical
point of view  the volume contributes to understanding the status of L1 transfer in language
learners at «ultimate attainment»  a stabilized  late stage in language acquisition. Unlike in
many studies in second language acquisition  the approach taken here is variationist  taking
into account extra- and intra-linguistic factors as potential explanations for variability. The
findings suggest that in addition to the target accent the strongest external factor is time
spent abroad  while L1 accent and proficiency level seem to have minor impact only.

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