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1、中国学生的英语发音问题浅析　　摘要：中国学生在学习英语发音的过程中往往会产生问题，这是因为学生所熟悉的汉语与英语属于两种不同的语系，在语音系统上存在很大差别，而第二语言学习过程中普遍存在着语言迁移现象，于是学生在发音上容易受他们的母语，即汉语的影响，从而形成发音错误和偏差。根据语言迁移理论，通过汉语和英语发音的对比，分析常见的中国学生英语发音错误，可以针对这些问题提出一些可行的解决方法。　　关键词：发音问题语音系统对比不同点语言迁移　　　　Introduction　　Accuratepronunciationandintonati

2、onarethebasicqualityofalanguageuser.However,therearemanyproblemsinChinesestudents’pronunciationofEnglish,resultingfromthenegativetransferoftheirmothertongue—Chinese.ExamplesoferrorsmadebyEnglishlearnersinpronunciationarecommon,displayingonbothsegmentalandsuprasegmenta

3、llevels.　　TheslightdifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishinpronunciationwhicharenotsoobviouscaneasilycausenegativetransfer.Bycontrastingthesoundsystemsofthetwolanguages,learnerswillbeclearaboutthecausesoftheproblemsandlearnsomeskillstoavoidortackletheseproblems.　　1.Probl

4、emsinPronouncingSegmentalPhonemes　　Differentlanguageshavedifferentphonemicsystems.Still,thereexisttruelinguisticuniversalsandnearuniversalsinalllanguages.Anawarenessofthedifferencesbetweenthenewandthenativelanguagecanhelpstudentsrealizewhichoftheirnativelanguagespeech

5、habitscanbetransferredtothenewlanguageandwhichcannot.　　ProblemsforChinesestudentsatsegmentallevelcanmainlybedividedintotwokinds:　　1.1ProblemswithSoundsTotallyNewtoChineseStudents　　SomeEnglishsoundsdonotexistintheChinesesoundsystem,whichleavesagapbetweenthetwolanguages

6、oundsystems.ThusitimposescertainlimitationsontheChinesestudents’Englishpronunciationlearning.Asaresult,ChineselearnersofEnglisharealwaystryingtofindasimilarsoundinChineselanguagetosubstitutefortheEnglishsound,whichcausesdeviation:　　(1)ManyChineselearnersignorethediffe

7、rencebetween/w/and/v/.BecauseinChinesethedistinctionbetween[w]and[v]isnotphonemic,i.e.soundsubstitutionofthetwosoundscannotcausedifferencesinmeaning.Asaresult,althoughthestudentsmayclearlyknowthemannerofarticulation,theystillwouldn’tliketomakeeffortto4distinguishthetw

8、osounds.Forexample,thephrase‘verywell’isalwayswronglypronouncedas/verivel/or/weriwel/.　　(2)/θ/and//aresoundswhichfailtofindt