不同水平学习者对英语语调感知的实证研究  

The effect of language proficiency on intonation perception:Evidence from Chinese English learners

作　　者：纪晓丽[1] 张辉[2] 李爱军[3] 龚箭[1] 

机构地区：[1]江苏科技大学 [2]南京师范大学 [3]中国社会科学院语言研究所

出　　处：《外语教学与研究》2018年第3期393-406,共14页Foreign Language Teaching and Research

基　　金：李爱军主持的国家社科基金重大项目"中国方言区英语学习者语音习得机制的跨学科研究"(15ZDB103)的阶段性成果;纪晓丽主持的教育部人文社科基金青年项目"基于实验语音学的中国学习者英语语调感知学习机制研究"(15YJC740034)和龚箭主持的教育部人文社科基金青年项目"噪声条件下母语及二语音段感知机制的对比实验研究"(16YJC740020)的资助

摘　　要：本文借助实验语音学手段合成实验语料,考察中国学习者对英语语调的感知。结果发现:1)中国学习者对句尾边界调的感知结果与英语母语者相似,把所有调型分为下降调和上升调两组;2)中国学习者对音高重音的感知与英语母语者不同,中国学习者对下降调组内的分类主要依据音高重音个数,而英语母语者分类依据是核心重音,即焦点的位置;3)中国学习者对英语语调感知的结果受到英语水平的影响,随着英语水平的提高,学习者对下降调的分组会不仅参考音高重音个数,而且考虑焦点位置。总体来说,学习者对语调感知的难点不是语音维度的感知,而是语义维度的加工,学习者在语调形式与意义的关联上产生困难,但随着二语水平的提高,学习者逐渐把语调的形式与意义作为一个整体考虑,形成构式整体的加工方式。Using one English sentence resynthesized with different intonation contours, the paper investigates the perception of English intonation by Chinese learners of different profi ciency. The results reveal perceptual similarities and differences between Native speakers and Chinese learners. On the one hand, all participants separated the falling from the rising contours. On the other hand, multidimensional scaling results show that Chinese learners produced statically different conceptual confi gurations for the falling contours. Native speakers tend to classify the falling contours according to the nuclear accent location while Chinese learners, especially learners of lower profi ciency, mainly refer to the number of pitch accents. Chinese learners may pay more attention to pitch contour changes than the meaning conveyed by the intonation contours. The results also highlight the effects of English proficiency. Chinese learners of high English proficiency also consider nuclear accent location as one criterion for classifying intonation contours. In summary, higher levels of processing such as learning the form-meaning associations are a source of difficulty in acquiring L2 speech. With increasing of English profi ciency, Chinese learners began to process the intonation contour as aconstruct, resulting in more native-like perception.

关 键 词：中国英语学习者 语调感知 二语水平 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]