Open AccessAN ANALYSIS OF PHONETIC-PHONOLOGICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHIC ERRORS WHEN LEARNING SERBIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Author(s) -
Nina Sudimac
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
facta universitatis. series: linguistics and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0518
pISSN - 0354-4702
DOI - 10.22190/full2001109s
Subject(s) - serbian , linguistics , bulgarian , first language , foreign language , romanian , perspective (graphical) , psychology , orthography , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , reading (process)
From the perspective of applied linguistics, this paper deals with the acquisition of Serbian as a foreign language by learners whose mother tongues are Lithuanian, Japanese, English and Bulgarian, and who spent one semester at the Centre for Serbian as a Foreign and Second Language at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš. Working with a specific sample and using the analytical and error analysis method, we aim to identify the most common errors the speakers make at the phonetic-phonological and orthographic level,., the identified linguistic errors are classified into (a) errors occurring under the influence of the mother tongue; (b) errors as the result of the strict rules of the Serbian language system itself – interlingual errors; (c) errors arising from knowledge of another second language; and (d), errors resulting from the insecurity and insufficient acquisition of the Serbian language. By analyzing the sample, we conclude that the greatest number of errors at the phonetic-phonological and orthographic level occurred under the influence of their mother tongue (L1) on Serbian (L2).