Publication details
De verstaanbaarheid van het Nederlands van Tsjechische NVT-sprekers
| Title in English | Intelligibility of the Dutch Spoken by Czech Speakers of Dutch as a Foreign Language |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | My dissertation entitled A Contrastive Description of the Standard Pronunciation of Dutch and Czech from the Perspective of Czech learners of Dutch, (Kostelecká, 2019) aimed to provide a comparative description of the pronunciation systems of Dutch and Czech. I did this by comparing the so-called articulatory settings of both European varieties of Standard Dutch with Czech. The sound inventories - the vocal and consonant systems of the analysed languages as well as the assimilation differences were then scrutinised with the aim of showing the differences and similarities. Based on this comparison, problematic sounds in Dutch for Czech native speakers were identified. In a follow-up study, I will investigate how the pronunciation of Czech speakers of Dutch is understood and perceived by native speakers of Dutch. I explore what they find disturbing about 'Czech Dutch'. I wonder what is considered a 'good' and intelligible pronunciation. Furthermore, I focus on the sound systems and the perception of the realisation of some concrete segments. At the IVN congress, I would like to present the results of an ongoing study on the pronunciation of students with A2 and B2 levels. Also, I plan to compare the attitudes of Dutch and Flemish native speakers towards Czech pronunciation. I would also like to identify what standard they apply with regard to the evaluation of 'errors'. Indeed, in my previous research I have seen that the Flemish native speakers tend to evaluate the foreign-language speech more strictly I want to see if I can confirm this hypothesis. |
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