Verbonden spraak of toch afzonderlijke klanken - het grootste knelpunt voor verstaanbaarheid?
| Title in English | Connected Speech or Yet Individual Sounds - the Biggest Problem for Intelligibility of the Speaker? |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | My pilot study on intelligibility of Czech speakers of Dutch at A2 level showed that deviations in rhythm, tempo and connected speech are seen as the most important factors for good intelligibility of Czech speakers at A2 level among the evaluators - NT2 and NVT teachers. These phenomena are also more important to them than the (sometimes incorrect) pronunciation of individual sounds. Connected speech refers to natural speech in which the speaker connects words naturally, realises voice assimilation naturally and speaks without too many problems. In my follow-up research on intelligibility of Czech speakers' Dutch, I focus on B1- and B2-level speakers and also in this group I want to investigate the extent to which they are intelligible to native speakers. The same criteria will be investigated, namely the realisation of individual sounds and especially the sounds that are difficult for Czech speakers and furthermore the realisation of accent, intonation, rhythm, tempo and connected speech. The aim of this contribution is twofold: first, I want to investigate whether connected speech remains a bottleneck even at B2 level and whether connected speech remains more important than the realisation of a selection of individual sounds even with this group. Secondly, based on the assessments and findings of NT2 and NVT teachers, I want to formulate concrete pronunciation and intelligibility problems that we should pay attention to with Czech students of Dutch in pronunciation classes with a view to good chances of passing, for example, the CNaVT exam. |
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