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ABSTRACT Foreign accents in second,language,(L2) production are caused byinterference,from ,the phonological ,system ,and ,phonetic realization of the speaker’s first language (L1), including both segmental,and ,prosodic ,features. This paper ,examines ,the intonation structure of Seoul ,Korean and ,its realization by American English speakers. Four English speakers of Korean, differing in fluency, and two Korean speakers participated in the experiment. Forty sentences were ,designed ,to test ,the realization of intonation ,patterns by varying ,the number ,of syllables within a word and a sentence, and by varying the conditions for the segment-tone interaction. Results show that, aswith segmental data, more advanced L2 speakers produce more native-like intonation patterns and prosodic structure than less advanced speakers. However, although advanced L2 speakers are better at grouping words into phrases, they are not better at producing ,surface tonal realizations of an ,accentual phrase,than ,less advanced ,speakers. This suggests ,that phonological properties of intonation ,are acquired earlier than phonetic properties of intonation. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2000 | 10.1121/1.429024 | INTERSPEECH |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Fluency,Second language,American English,Sentence,Linguistics,First language,Physics | Conference | 107 |
Issue | Citations | PageRank |
5 | 1 | 0.36 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Sun-Ah Jun | 1 | 55 | 15.92 |
| Mira Oh | 2 | 1 | 0.36 |