Prepoznavanje romanskih govornika u hrvatskome kao J2
Recognition of Romance speakers in Croatian as L2

Summary/Abstract: One part of the science papers shows that in a speech of a foreign language the first language (L1) of speakers is easily recognized even if speaker has high communication competence. Other studies of recognition of L1 don't confirm this hypothesis. For example, research how native speakers of Croatian recognize L1 of non-native speakers of the Croatian language has shown very small results of recognition and very little accuracy. The previous published results showed that the Slavic speakers had been recognized as a non-Slavic language speakers. Furthermore, speech of German speakers of Croatian as L2 have been recognized as speech of South Slavic languages (mostly as Slovenian speakers). Native speakers of the Croatian language are in a small percentage identified as natives. This paper will show recognition of Romance speaker as non native speakers of Croatian. Especially, it will be analyzed phonetic and phonological features of pronunciation. In the study, a total of 60 native speakers of the Croatian language tried to recognize L1 of non native Croatian speakers (total 121, it included 35 Romance speakers). All Romance speakers are recognized more as non-Romance speakers then Romance. Spanish as L1 is identified as French and as non-Romance language as Polish or Chinese. Portuguese as L1 is identified as Italian and as non-Romance language as Chinese. Italian as L1 is identified as Spanish or Romanian and as non-Romance as German and Slovenian. French as L1 is identified as Spanish or Romanian and as non-Romance language as German.

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