Literature Review on the Factors of Influence on the English Prosody Acquisition

Recent years, pronunciation of being native-like is more and more stressed in China; so many scholars have done researches on this area. Researchers explore disparate ways linked with prosody acquisition to try to look out the factors that give influence to the English prosody acquisition. Generally concluding, two aspects are taken into account by researchers: linguistics ways and sociolinguistics ways. For instances, the whole features of learning prosody acquisition, semantic ways to learn the prosody; input and output frequency, age and gender effect on the prosody are the important factors.