• Tonal accents realization in Norwegian speakers' English production: Do Norwegians transfer their tonal accents? 

      Huang, Tianjiao (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-29)
      This study investigates whether Urban East Norwegian (hence force Norwegian) speakers realize their tonal accents on their English. One difference between these two languages is that Norwegian uses pitches to differentiate lexical items, whereas English uses pitch to indicate post-lexical contrast, i.e., to convey different pragmatic meaning. In Norwegian, both the L tone and H tone can be associated ...