近二十年国内二语语调研究回顾与展望

A Survey of Studies in Chinese English Learners’Intonation

二语语调习得在二语习得研究中占有不可忽视的地位。本文从国内二语语调研究常用的两大理论谈起,对国内近二十年二语语调研究从研究方法、研究对象、研究语料和研究内容等方面进行了详尽的综述。可以说国内二语语调习得研究在近20年来蓬勃发展,取得了不菲的成就。但是仍然存在研究对象不够全面,研究语料设计不够严谨,研究内容比较单一,不够深入的现象。今后二语语调习得研究应全面地,系统地对中国学习者语调进行调查研究,并增加跨学科或者多学科研究,探索语调习得机制,构建适合中国学习者的二语语调习得研究理论体系。

The acquisition of intonation is an important subject for the SLA study. This paper starts with the introduction to the British traditional intonation theories and Auto-segmental Metrical theory, then this paper summarizes the studies of Chinese English learners’ intonation in great detail. Though big progress has been made for the intonation studies in recent years, there are still some problems. The subjects of these studies haven’t considered the factors that could affect the SLA, such as AOA, second language proficiency, etc. The materials haven’t considered sentence types, focus location and other elements. And the focus of the studies is mainly limited to summarizing Chinese learners’ intonation problems, instead of the reasons. More researches should be conducted systematically to explore the intonation acquisition mechanism.