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Lloyd-Smith, Anika – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Bringing to the field of third language (L3) research a new population of speakers, namely heritage speaker (HS) L3 learners, this study investigates the accents of 19 German-Italian HSs in L3 English. In an accent rating experiment, the speech samples of the HSs and three control groups (monolingual speakers of English, Italian, and German) were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, Italian, English (Second Language)
Drake, Derek – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation presents new research on the "Bavarian Quantity Law" (the BQL) in the northern Bavarian dialect of Hahnbach. Building upon earlier investigation of the BQL (cf. Bannert 1976a,b for Central Bavarian) this study examines the historical, phonological, and phonetic motivations for this feature as well the variability in its…
Descriptors: Dialects, History, Phonology, Phonetics