Aiming at difficulties for Chinese students to learn English,based on phonology theory,this article compares the Chinese tone with English intonation from various aspects,the finding is that the two language families ...Aiming at difficulties for Chinese students to learn English,based on phonology theory,this article compares the Chinese tone with English intonation from various aspects,the finding is that the two language families have a great difference in intonation;intonation is put to use without high proficiency for students due to the influence of Chinese tone and its simplified pedagogy.展开更多
This paper discusses the acquisition of Mandarin lexical tones by American second language(L2)learners.The analy sis of the tone errors in the reading p assa g e and the spontaneous speech showed that the surface Tone...This paper discusses the acquisition of Mandarin lexical tones by American second language(L2)learners.The analy sis of the tone errors in the reading p assa g e and the spontaneous speech showed that the surface Tone 4error is the most frequent at the prosodic word(P W)-initial position in both the intermediate and the advanced learner group s.Attempts were made to account for this tone error p attern within some second language acquisition(SLA)frameworks,but in vain.It was arg ued that this tone error pattern may be due to the high pitch tendency at the p hrase-or sentence-initial position in speech.Although this is more of ageneral pattern across languages,the production of such a tendency by L2 learners sup erseded the underly in g tones,hence the surface Tone 4errors.The sp ecial status of Tone 4in L2 sp eech corres ponds to the special status of the same tone in the first language(L1)speech(Wan,2007).However,it was cautioned that such similarity should not be taken as evidence for the similarity in L1 and L2acquisition in that different processes are involved in L1 and L2production.展开更多
文摘Aiming at difficulties for Chinese students to learn English,based on phonology theory,this article compares the Chinese tone with English intonation from various aspects,the finding is that the two language families have a great difference in intonation;intonation is put to use without high proficiency for students due to the influence of Chinese tone and its simplified pedagogy.
文摘This paper discusses the acquisition of Mandarin lexical tones by American second language(L2)learners.The analy sis of the tone errors in the reading p assa g e and the spontaneous speech showed that the surface Tone 4error is the most frequent at the prosodic word(P W)-initial position in both the intermediate and the advanced learner group s.Attempts were made to account for this tone error p attern within some second language acquisition(SLA)frameworks,but in vain.It was arg ued that this tone error pattern may be due to the high pitch tendency at the p hrase-or sentence-initial position in speech.Although this is more of ageneral pattern across languages,the production of such a tendency by L2 learners sup erseded the underly in g tones,hence the surface Tone 4errors.The sp ecial status of Tone 4in L2 sp eech corres ponds to the special status of the same tone in the first language(L1)speech(Wan,2007).However,it was cautioned that such similarity should not be taken as evidence for the similarity in L1 and L2acquisition in that different processes are involved in L1 and L2production.
