中国学习者的英语升调习得

Research on the Acquisition of English Rising Tone by Chinese Learners

语调是话语的旋律和灵魂,在口头交际中具有重要作用,但中国学习者的英语语调习得情况不甚理想。通过实证研究发现,学习者习得的英语升调存在调核重音位置不当、调核音高变化失控、以降调替代升调、调核或调尾结尾辅音后面加音等主要问题。升调习得主要受语调知识欠缺、重音习得不佳、英汉语调模式不同等因素的影响。解决问题的关键是:借助现代语音技术,科学灌输语调知识,实现语调习得的"多模态"化,有效提高学习者的升调感知与产出能力。

Intonation is the melody and soul of speech, and plays an important role in oral communication. Nevertheless, the acqui-sition of English intonation by Chinese learners is far from being satisfactory. It is found by empirical study that the exsis-ring main problems in acquiring English rising tone are improper placement of nuclear stress, failure to control the con-tour of pitch of nuclear, replacement of rising tone by falling one, addition of extra central vowel after the consonant with which the nuclear or tail ends. The acquistion of rising tone is influenced by lack of intonation knowledge, poor acquisi-ton of stress, differences betweeen English and Chinese intonation patterns, etc. One key solution is to imbue the learners with knowledge of intonation by utilizing modern phonological technologies to make posssibe the multimodal phonological acquisition of intonation so as to improve the learners＇ ability of perceiving and producing rising tone.