@InProceedings{Andreeva2022_1162,
<br/>   author = {Bistra Andreeva and Snezhina Dimitrova},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2022},
<br/>   title = {Prosodic characteristics of Bulgarian-Accented German},
<br/>   year = {2022},
<br/>   editor = {Oliver Niebuhr and Malin Svensson Lundmark and Heather Weston},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {220--227},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {The present study investigates the prosodic characteristics of Bulgarian,
Bulgarian-accented German and German spoken as L1. We recorded ten Bulgarian
female learners, who read the fable “The North Wind and the Sun” in Bulgarian and
German. We also recorded ten female native speakers of German as controls. The following
durational parameters were obtained: mean accented syllable duration, accented
vs. unaccented syllable duration ratio, and speaking rate. With respect to F0-
related parameters, we obtained long-term distributional measures (mean, median,
minimum, maximum, span in semitones, and standard deviations per IP) as well as
linguistically relevant measures of tonal landmarks (local maxima and minima associated
with prominent or non-prominent syllables). Additionally, we calculated the number
of accented and unaccented syllables, IPs and pauses in each reading. Statistical
analyses show that all F0-related LTD parameters in the speech of the Bulgarian learners
of German were lower than in their L1 but higher than those of the native German
speakers. With respect to the linguistic measures, we found that the Bulgarian speakers
of German realized the majority of the linguistically relevant targets in a way which
was very similar to the respective realizations in their mother tongue. The number of
accented syllables, IPs and pauses was also higher in L2. Regarding duration, Bulgarian
learners of German used slower articulation rate.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-95908-548-9},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Prosody},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2022_220_227.pdf},
<br/>}