2010 Presentations (Communicative Events)
Perception of English Prominence by Native Mandarin Chinese Speakers
Native-like perception of intonational prominence is important for spoken language competency. Non-native speakers may have trouble interpreting prosodic variation in a second language like English, where intonational variation can critically influence utterance semantics. By identifying types of prosody non-native learners find difficult to perceive, we can improve our ability to teach L2 speakers a language. In this paper we present results of a perception study in which Mandarin speakers with knowledge of English were tested on their ability to identify prosodic prominence in English in a variety of contexts. Through this analysis we identify particular contexts which make it difficult for Mandarin speakers to recognize pitch accent in English.
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More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Computer Science
- Publisher
- Speech Prosody 2010
- Published Here
- August 5, 2013