This paper discusses how Chinese speakers produce English sonorant consonants embedded in syllable structures novel to them.It shows that speakers may simulate target second language(L2)sounds based on acoustically si...This paper discusses how Chinese speakers produce English sonorant consonants embedded in syllable structures novel to them.It shows that speakers may simulate target second language(L2)sounds based on acoustically similar first language(L1)sounds and it is a rather complex process in which sonorant type,vowel context,and articulatory constraints all come into play.Particularly,simulation of L2 speech based on acoustic cues is found to occur not only at the segmental but also at the syllabic level in the English production of Chinese speakers.To explain this finding,the present study proposes an acoustic-articulatory model of L2 syllable production and assumes that the acoustic simulation process is syllable-based and the output form is guided by salient acoustic cues and modulated by both language general and specific coarticulatory mechanisms.展开更多
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文摘This paper discusses how Chinese speakers produce English sonorant consonants embedded in syllable structures novel to them.It shows that speakers may simulate target second language(L2)sounds based on acoustically similar first language(L1)sounds and it is a rather complex process in which sonorant type,vowel context,and articulatory constraints all come into play.Particularly,simulation of L2 speech based on acoustic cues is found to occur not only at the segmental but also at the syllabic level in the English production of Chinese speakers.To explain this finding,the present study proposes an acoustic-articulatory model of L2 syllable production and assumes that the acoustic simulation process is syllable-based and the output form is guided by salient acoustic cues and modulated by both language general and specific coarticulatory mechanisms.
