Browsing by Person "Schmid, Monika"

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Global foreign accent in native German speech
(2007-08) de Leeuw, Esther; Schmid, Monika; Mennen, Ineke
The results of this study suggest that German monolingual listeners were more likely to perceive a global foreign accent in the native German speech of consecutive bilinguals in Anglophone Canada and the Dutch Netherlands than in the speech of a control group of monolingual Germans in Germany. The results furthermore suggest that contact with the native German language may have a more significant effect on predicting global foreign accent in native speech than age of arrival or length of residence. More specifically, for both English and Dutch second language groups, a global foreign accent was more likely to be perceived in immigrants who had less contact with their native German language than in those who had more contact, although this effect was more evident in consecutive bilinguals who immigrated after 22 years of age.
Language attrition research network
(Blackwell, 2008-03) Schmid, Monika; de Leeuw, Esther
The article offers information on Research Network on Language Attrition, an international group formed by young researchers. It reports that the network aims at developing theoretical and methodological frameworks for the research works on language attrition. It mentions the worldwide collection of data on attrition by the network, for crosslinguistic comparison purpose. It reports the topics discussed at the network's meeting in January 2006 and states their decision to publish a regular newsletter from he participants of the group. It also mentions the topics covered in the October 2007 news letter of the group including the research papers on Arabic, English and Polish. Also mentioned are the possibilities of website launch from the network.