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Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2015 The Acquisition of Intonation by L2 Spanish Speakers While on a Six Week Study Abroad Program in Valencia, Spain Jessica Craft Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES THE ACQUISITION OF INTONATION BY L2 SPANISH SPEAKERS WHILE ON A SIX WEEK STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM IN VALENCIA, SPAIN By JESSICA CRAFT A Thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts 2015 Jessica Craft defended this thesis on June 18, 2015. The members of the supervisory committee were: Carolina González Professor Directing Thesis Lara Reglero Committee Member Antje Muntendam Committee Member Anel Brandl Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the thesis has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii This thesis is dedicated to Dr. Carolina González for all of the support and guidance she has offered me throughout this process. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my parents for all of their support, both financial as well as emotional, during the last two years. I would also like to thank my friends, whom without their grace, love, and shoulders to cry on, there is no way I would have survived the masters. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables ................................................................................................................................ vii List of Figures ................................................................................................................................ ix Abstract ............................................................................................................................................x 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................1 1.1 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................1 1.2 Related studies ......................................................................................................................3 1.3 Early research on Spanish intonation ....................................................................................6 1.4 Models of intonation and the tones and break indices ..........................................................8 1.5 Organization of thesis .........................................................................................................10 2. LITERATURE REVIEW .........................................................................................................12 2.1 Prosodic analysis .................................................................................................................12 2.2 Related studies ....................................................................................................................13 3. METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................................................28 3.1 Research questions ..............................................................................................................28 3.2 Hypotheses ..........................................................................................................................28 3.3 Stimuli and tasks .................................................................................................................31 3.4 Independent and dependent variables .................................................................................35 3.5 Participants and location .....................................................................................................35 3.6 Experiment design ...............................................................................................................37 3.7 Acoustic analysis .................................................................................................................42 3.8 Statistical analysis ...............................................................................................................43 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ...............................................................................................45 4.1 Native speaker results .........................................................................................................45 4.2 Discussion of native speaker results ...................................................................................50 4.3 Non-native speaker results ..................................................................................................52 4.4 Discussion of non-native speaker results ............................................................................68 4.5 Conclusion ..........................................................................................................................70 5. CONCLUSION .........................................................................................................................71 5.1 Summary of study and results .............................................................................................71 5.2 Theories of phonological and second language acquisition ................................................74 5.3 Motivation to improve ........................................................................................................75 5.4 The study abroad classroom ................................................................................................76 5.5 Limitations ..........................................................................................................................78 v 5.6 Eliminating limitations in future studies .............................................................................79 5.7 Future research ....................................................................................................................79 APPENDICES ...............................................................................................................................82 A. HUMAN SUBJECTS APPROVAL LETTERS .......................................................................82 B. INFORMED CONSENT FORMS, SPANISH & ENGLISH ...................................................84 C. LANGUAGE USE SURVEYS .................................................................................................86 References ....................................................................................................................................100 Biographical Sketch .....................................................................................................................108 vi LIST OF TABLES 1 Schedule of recording and perception instruction sessions .....................................................37 2 Coding of variables for statistical analysis ..............................................................................44 3 Native speaker participants ......................................................................................................45 4 Initial pre-nuclear pitch accents, declaratives ..........................................................................46 5 Medial pre-nuclear pitch accents, declaratives ........................................................................47 6 Nuclear pitch accent configuration, declaratives .....................................................................47 7 Initial pre-nuclear pitch accents, absolute interrogatives .........................................................48 8 Medial pre-nuclear pitch accents, absolute interrogatives .......................................................49 9 Nuclear pitch accent configuration, absolute interrogatives ....................................................49 10 Non-native speaker participants ...............................................................................................52 11 Initial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the pretest in declaratives .............54 12 Initial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the posttest in declaratives ............55 13 Initial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the pretest in declaratives .......................56 14 Initial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the posttest in declaratives .....................56 15 Medial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the pretest in declaratives ............57 16 Medial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the posttest in declaratives ..........58 17 Medial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the pretest in declaratives .....................58 18 Medial pre-nuclear position for the control at the posttest in declaratives ..............................59 19 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the experimental group at the pretest in declaratives ..........................................................................................................................59 20 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the experimental group at the posttest in declaratives ..........................................................................................................................60 21 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the control group at the pretest in declaratives .........60 vii 22 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the control group at the posttest in declaratives .......61 23 Initial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the pretest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................62 24 Initial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the posttest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................62 25 Initial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the pretest in absolute interrogatives ......63 26 Initial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the posttest in absolute interrogatives ....63 27 Medial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the pretest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................64 28 Medial pre-nuclear position for the experimental group at the posttest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................64 29 Medial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the pretest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................65 30 Medial pre-nuclear position for the control group at the posttest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................65 31 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the experimental group at the pretest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................66 32 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the experimental group at the posttest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................66 33 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the control group at the pretest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................67 34 Nuclear pitch accent configurations for the control group at the posttest in absolute interrogatives ............................................................................................................................67 viii LIST OF FIGURES 1 Rising Peak Pitch Accent: L*+H .............................................................................................17 2 Delayed Peak Pitch Accent: L+>H* ........................................................................................18 3 Discourse Completion Task: “¿Qué hace el mono?” .............................................................34 4 Perception Training, English Example ....................................................................................38 5 Perception Training, Spanish Example ....................................................................................39 6 Perception Training; Virtual Session #1 ..................................................................................40 ix
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