Prosody of contrastive adjectives in mono- and bilingual speakers of English and Russian: a corpus study

Sabine Zerbian, Marlene Böttcher, Yulia Zuban
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The study reports on the frequency of occurrence and prosodic realization of adjective-noun phrases in which the adjective is contrastively focused. The productions of bilingual speakers are investigated in both their languages, Heritage Russian and majority English. The data are extracted from a corpus of semi-spontaneous speech which was collected in a comparable way from mono- and bilingual speakers in the U.S. and Russia. Results of the analysis show that there is a language-specific difference in that Russian speakers use ADJ CF +N combinations less frequently than English speakers despite a reported parallel between the languages in terms of semantics and prosody. Moreover, English and Russian seem to differ in their accentuation pattern in ADJ CF +N. Speakers of Russian as a Heritage Language frequently use double accents in ADJ CF +N. Across English and Russian, double accents in ADJ CF +N occur more frequently in formal than in informal situation, and more frequently in bilingual than in monolingual speakers. The results are discussed in light of the often reported tendency in heritage language grammars to avoid ambiguity.
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英语和俄语单语和双语者对比形容词的韵律:语料库研究
本研究报告了形容词对比集中的形容词-名词短语的出现频率和韵律实现。双语者的作品被调查在他们的语言,传统俄语和多数英语。这些数据是从半自发语料库中提取的,这些语料库是以类似的方式从美国和俄罗斯的单语和双语者中收集的。分析结果表明,俄语使用者使用ADJ CF +N组合的频率低于英语使用者,这是一种特定语言的差异,尽管有报道称两种语言在语义和韵律方面相似。此外,英语和俄语在ADJ CF +N中的重音模式似乎有所不同。把俄语作为传统语言的人经常在ADJ CF +N中使用双重口音。在英语和俄语中,双重口音在正式场合比在非正式场合更常见,在双语者中比在单语者中更常见。根据传统语言语法中经常报道的避免歧义的倾向,对结果进行了讨论。
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