TY - GEN
T1 - Acquisition and interpretation of mandarin speech prosody by native speakers and cantonese learners
AU - Chen, Xi
AU - Chen, Si
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - This study aims to test the ability to match acoustic cues to different focus types and positions by advanced Cantonese L2 learners of Mandarin under the modalities of auditory-only and visual-auditory. Following the design by [29], participants were instructed to make a 5-Likert response to rate their preferences for the conversations they heard. Results show that visual-aids facilitated the perception of prosody; L2 learners showed fewer difficulties in differentiating narrow and contrastive focus than native Mandarin speakers. These findings provide significances for prosodic perception, second language acquisition and bilingual education.
AB - This study aims to test the ability to match acoustic cues to different focus types and positions by advanced Cantonese L2 learners of Mandarin under the modalities of auditory-only and visual-auditory. Following the design by [29], participants were instructed to make a 5-Likert response to rate their preferences for the conversations they heard. Results show that visual-aids facilitated the perception of prosody; L2 learners showed fewer difficulties in differentiating narrow and contrastive focus than native Mandarin speakers. These findings provide significances for prosodic perception, second language acquisition and bilingual education.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082396180&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APSIPAASC47483.2019.9023265
DO - 10.1109/APSIPAASC47483.2019.9023265
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85082396180
T3 - 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2019
SP - 1800
EP - 1809
BT - 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2019
Y2 - 18 November 2019 through 21 November 2019
ER -