Prosodic Transfer in the Beginning-and Advanced-Level Chinese Learners' Production of English Word Stress

DOI

10.2991/hss-17.2017.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Prosodic transfer, English word stress, Production, Proficiency, Chinese learners.

Abstract

English second language (L2) learners often experience difficulties in producing native-like English lexical stress. It is unknown which acoustic correlates (F0, duration and intensity) are the most problematic for Chinese learners of different proficiency levels. The present study investigates the prosodic transfer effects of first language (L1) on the production of English lexical stress by 10 beginning-level and 10 advanced-level Chinese learners of English. Results showed that L2 learners produced less native-like stress patterns in terms of acoustic correlates, values varied according to their L2 proficiency. Although all Chinese learners of English used F0, duration, and intensity to identify stress, they performed differently on the use of duration, possibly due to L1 tonal transfer.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xing-Rong Guo
AU  - Xiao-Xiang Chen
AU  - Yi-Ming Guo
PY  - 2017/02
DA  - 2017/02
TI  - Prosodic Transfer in the Beginning-and Advanced-Level Chinese Learners' Production of English Word Stress
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science (HSS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 18
EP  - 22
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/hss-17.2017.4
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