Learning prosody and fluency characteristics of second language speech: The effect of experience on child learners' acquisition of five suprasegmentals  

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Baker, Wendy ; Trofimovich, Pavel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Psycholinguistics vol. 28 no. 2 (Apr. 2007), page 251-276.
Fulltext: 28;251-276==.pdf (168.01KB)

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This study examined second language (L2) experience effects on children’s acquisition of fluency- (speech rate, frequency, and duration of pausing) and prosody-based (stress timing, peak alignment) suprasegmentals. TwentyKorean children (age of arrival in the United States=7–11 years, length ofUS residence = 1 vs. 11 years) and 20 age-matched English monolinguals produced six English sentences in a sentence repetition task. Acoustic analyses and listener judgments were used to determine how accurately the suprasegmentals were produced and to what extent they contributed to foreign accent. Results indicated that the children with 11 years of US residence, unlike those with 1 year of US residence, produced all but one (speech rate) suprasegmentals natively. Overall, findings revealed similarities between L2 segmental and suprasegmental learning.

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