Prosody facilitates memory recall in l1 but not in l2 in highly proficient listeners
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10424234" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10424234 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jzEyL7Q8uo" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jzEyL7Q8uo</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000433" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0272263119000433</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Prosody facilitates memory recall in l1 but not in l2 in highly proficient listeners
Original language description
Prosody is crucial for language comprehension because it highlights underlying structures. This study explores whether prosody facilitates memory recall to the same extent in L1 and L2, and whether memory recall is poorer in L2 or whether language-specific differences can mitigate L2 processing difficulties. Nineteen Greek learners of English, and a monolingual English baseline, repeated three-digit chunks with and without prosodic cues in L1 and L2. Prosody was a major facilitator of memory recall only in L1 despite the high proficiency of learners. This indicates that L2 mastery of prosody perception is hard to attain, mirroring production studies. However, when prosodic boundary cues were absent, memory recall in L2 was comparable to L1. This demonstrates that language-specific differences can attenuate more general processing difficulties in L2. This study is the first to demonstrate differences in prosodic processing in L1 and L2 resulting in poorer memory recall in L2.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
ISSN
0272-2631
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
42
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
223-238
UT code for WoS article
000514167300009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85071932010