Native learners? - Jack Pulman Slater
Автор: Polyglot Conference
Загружено: 2025-06-18
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We're all aware of what a native speaker can sound like, but is there such a thing as a “native learner”- someone who’s in between being a learner and a native speaker? In minority language learning contexts lots of learners aren't necessarily starting completely from scratch. Instead, these learners might speak a dialect of the majority language which recalls features of the minority language their community once spoke over 100 years ago.
In this talk I'll define what it means to be a native learner by focussing on examples from Wales and adult learners who are from Wales but grew up speaking English. I'll consider some findings from a research project on intonation that tries to establish whether these native learners' first language backgrounds might put them at an advantage over other kinds of people learning Welsh as adults.There’s a popular idea in Wales that local learners outperform learners from elsewhere. I’ll put this idea to the test and play some examples of the idiomatic sing-song intonation of Welsh.
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