Heritage speakers’ perception of heritage speech: prosody contributes to heritage accent more than segments do

• Kim, Joo Kyeong ^[1] ; Kim, Ji Young ^[1] ; Carter, John ^[1] ; Choi, Jenny Eonsuh ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California Los Angeles

     University of California Los Angeles

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 29, Nº 3, 2026, págs. 602-614
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925100291
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• Resumen

  • This study investigates heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish in the U.S. and potential areas of divergence in speech from homeland speakers. To examine the relative contribution of prosody and segments in perceived heritage accent, we conducted an accent rating task with speech samples of second language learners (L2s), HSs and homeland speakers presented in three conditions: original, prosody-only and segments-only. The stimuli were rated by two groups: HSs and homeland speakers. The results revealed that HSs and homeland speakers had similar global accent perceptions, rating HSs as more native-like than L2s but less native-like than homeland speakers. We found that both rater groups aligned with a dominant language ideology of Spanish; speakers who were judged as more native-like were perceived as residing in a Spanish-speaking country. Our findings also demonstrate that prosody contributes more to perceived heritage accent than segments, while segments contribute more to L2 foreign accent than prosody.

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