An Acoustic Study of Chinese EFL Learners Sentence Stress: From A Discourse-Prosodic Perspective
Based on the Hierarchy of Prosodic Phrase Group Model (HPG), which presents the sentence stress assignment within a connected speech, by comparing native speakers speech data with Chinese EFL learners data, this paper explores: (1) the differences of the emphasis distribution of the NS and NNS in perceived highlights and prosodic boundary; (2) their differences in the distribution of break boundary. Results show that Chinese EFL learners sentence stress distributions are distinct from native speakers, stress is realized by Chinese EFL learners as pitch movement, with nonstandard realization of stress on nearly every word, including function words, which might be attributed to the transfer of Mandarin prosodic patterns into English.
sentence stress discourse prosody Chinese EFL learners acoustic study
Wang Qiuying Zheng Xianri
Yanbian University, Yanji, China
国际会议
2017东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2017 NALLTS)
山西吕梁
英文
252-260
2017-06-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）