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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2021.13.4.035

Interaction of native language interference and universal language interference on L2 intonation acquisition: Focusing on the pitch range variation  

Yune, Youngsook (College of Genaral Education, Kyungnam University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.13, no.4, 2021 , pp. 35-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we examined the interactive aspects between pitch reduction phenomena considered a universal language phenomenon and native language interference in the production of L2 intonation performed by Chinese learners of Korean. To investigate their interaction, we conducted an acoustic analysis using acoustic measures such as pitch span, pitch level, pitch dynamic quotient, skewness, and kurtosis. In addition, the correlation between text comprehension and pitch was examined. The analyzed material consisted of four Korean discourses containing five and seven sentences of varying difficulty. Seven Korean native speakers and thirty Chinese learners who differed in their Korean proficiency participated in the production test. The results, for differences by language, showed that Chinese had a more expanded pitch span, and a higher pitch level than Korean. The analysis between groups showed that at the beginner and intermediate levels, pitch reduction was prominent, i.e., their Korean was characterized by a compressed pitch span, low pitch level, and less sentence internal pitch variation. Contrariwise, the pitch use of advanced speakers was most similar to Korean native speakers. There was no significant correlation between text difficulty and pitch use. Through this study, we observed that pitch reduction was more pronounced than native language interference in the phonetic layer.
Keywords
second language intonation; pitch span; pitch level; pitch range; pitch reduction; native language interference;
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