TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Collection of an L2 English Corpus with a Suprasegmental Focus for Chinese Learners of English
AU - LI, Mingxing
AU - Zhang, Shuang
AU - Li, Kun
AU - Harrison, Alissa
AU - Lo, Wai-Kit
AU - Meng, Helen
PY - 2011/8/17
Y1 - 2011/8/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Conference proceeding
T3 - ICPhS Proceedings
SP - 1210
EP - 1213
BT - Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS XVII
PB - International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
T2 - The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 17
Y2 - 17 August 2011 through 21 August 2011
ER -