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Mason A. Wirtz; Simone E. Pfenninger; Irmtraud Kaiser; Andrea Ender – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The present study takes a variationist perspective to explore the varietal repertoires of adult learners of German as a second language (L2), that is, their variable use of standard German, Austro-Bavarian dialect, and mixture varieties. Forty L2 learners completed a virtual reality task involving interactions with dialect-speaking and…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Variation, German
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Awan, Shaheen N.; Stine, Carolyn L – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in voice onset time (VOT) between speakers of standard American English (AE) and Indian English (IE) in a continuous speech context. The participants were 20 AE speakers, who were native to the Northeastern Pennsylvania region, and 20 IE speakers from the Indian subcontinent who had…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North American English, Indians, Dialects