Emotional prosody perception in Italian as a second language
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0040/000402Keywords:
Second Language Acquisition, emotional prosody perception, Italian L2Abstract
The present research aims at investigating the recognition and perception of emotional prosody in L2. 10 Russian learners of Italian and 33 native speakers of Italian (acting as a control group) were involved in a perception experiment. The test consisted of 8 stimuli, 4 in Italian and 4 in Russian, conveying different emotions. Participants were asked to listen to the stimulus, to recognize the emotion and to judge the intensity of the emotion on a scale from 0 to 3. Results showed that both groups were able to identify stimuli in both languages at above chance level, nevertheless they decoded the stimuli expressed in their L1 with higher accuracy. Furthermore, the two groups rated the intensity of Italian stimuli in a similar way, but differed significantly in judging the intensity of Russian stimuli.
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