Design and Collection of an L2 English Corpus with a Suprasegmental Focus for Chinese Learners of English

Mingxing LI; Shuang Zhang; Kun Li; Alissa  Harrison; Wai-Kit  Lo; Helen Meng

Design and Collection of an L2 English Corpus with a Suprasegmental Focus for Chinese Learners of English

Mingxing LI, Shuang Zhang, Kun Li, Alissa Harrison, Wai-Kit Lo, Helen Meng

Academy of Language and Culture

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Abstract

English and Chinese have stark differences in both segmental and suprasegmental features. In particular, for Chinese learners of English as a secondary language (L2), there are expected deviations in the production of English prosody as a result of transfer of linguistic characteristics from their mother tongue. We have designed, collected and annotated a corpus to elicit suprasegmental information from over 200 Chinese learners of English, focusing on lexical stress, utterance level stress, intonation, reduction of function words, as well as prosodic disambiguation. The corpus provides empirical data for studies in pedagogy and computer-aided language learning (CALL), etc.

Original language	English
Pages	1210-1213
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 17 Aug 2011
Event	The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 17 - , Hong Kong Duration: 17 Aug 2011 → 21 Aug 2011

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Conference	The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 17
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
Period	17/08/11 → 21/08/11

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LI, M., Zhang, S., Li, K., Harrison, A., Lo, W.-K., & Meng, H. (2011). Design and Collection of an L2 English Corpus with a Suprasegmental Focus for Chinese Learners of English. 1210-1213. Paper presented at The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 17, Hong Kong. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2011/OnlineProceedings/RegularSession/Li,%20Mingxing/Li,%20Mingxing.pdf

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Design and Collection of an L2 English Corpus with a Suprasegmental Focus for Chinese Learners of English

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