That Came as No Surprise! The Processing of Prosody-Grammar Associations in Danish First and Second Language Users
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Gosselke Berthelsen (0000-0002-7476-3938, Lund University, corresponding author), Line Burholt Kristensen (0000-0003-4004-9303, University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 181 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages10080181 |
| OpenAlex | W4413095829 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 65 |
In some languages, prosodic cues on word stems can be used to predict upcoming suffixes. Previous studies have shown that second language (L2) users can process such cues predictively in their L2 from approximately intermediate proficiency. This ability may depend on the mapping of the L2 prosody onto first language (L1) perceptual and functional prosodic categories. Taking as an example the Danish stød, a complex prosodic cue, we investigate an acquisition context of a predictive cue where L2 users are unfamiliar with both its perceptual correlates and its functionality. This differs from previous studies on predictive prosodic cues in Swedish and Spanish, where L2 users were only unfamiliar with either the perceptual make-up or functionality of the cue. In a speeded number judgement task, L2 users of Danish with German as their L1 (N = 39) and L1 users of Danish (N = 40) listened to noun stems with a prosodic feature (stød or non-stød) that either matched or mismatched the inflectional suffix (singular vs. plural). While L1 users efficiently utilised stød predictively for rapid and accurate grammatical processing, L2 users showed no such behaviour. These findings underscore the importance of mapping between L1 and L2 prosodic categories in second language acquisition
Context (archaeology · Danish · Feature (linguistics · German · Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Perception · Plural · Prosody · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Highly cited | No |