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Corley, George Alston.

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Stress Production by Mandarin Speaking Learners of English.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stress Production by Mandarin Speaking Learners of English./
Author:	Corley, George Alston.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	124 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-08A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13427306
ISBN:	9780438842731

Stress Production by Mandarin Speaking Learners of English.
Corley, George Alston.

Stress Production by Mandarin Speaking Learners of English. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 124 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores the production of the phonetic correlates of stress in English by L2 speakers of Mandarin Chinese. English uses pitch, loudness, and vowel duration to mark stress (Fry, 1958). Chinese uses duration and loudness as well as an expansion of the pitch range (Duanmu, 2000; Chao, 1968). I examine in this paper whether Chinese speakers' production of these correlates are influence by their native stress or tonal systems. These hypotheses are explored through an experimental phonetics task. Native English speakers and Mandarin speakers who learned English as a second language are asked to read a list of words using a carrier phrase. The wordlist has been constructed with disyllabic words with initial or final stress. A pilot test with 19 subjects (10 Mandarin speakers, 9 English speakers) found that Mandarin speakers do use duration and loudness (measured as intensity) to mark stress. Mandarin speakers also did have similar pitch values to English speakers. A second experiment sought to confirm these initial findings with a larger subject pool (30 Mandarin speakers and 30 English speakers) and modifications to the protocol. The third and final experiment uses data from the 30 Mandarin speakers in the second experiment to compare their own English production to their Mandarin production. The study found that Mandarin speakers use intensity and duration in a manner comparable to English speakers, with duration having a small difference in that Mandarin speakers have more lengthening of final syllables. When pitch measurements were taken, it appeared that Mandarin speakers had a tendency to have an upward curve in initial stressed syllables, where English speakers merely had a shallower fall. Comparison of curves with Mandarin tones did not, however, provide good evidence for the influence of tonal categories on stress. I concluded that Mandarin speakers likely do have some influence from their native stress system, but influence from the tonal system is not supported by current evidence.

ISBN: 9780438842731Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Stress Production by Mandarin Speaking Learners of English.
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