the influence of xi’an dialect on the acquisition of english articulation

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1、TheInfluenceofXi’anDialectontheAcquisitionofEnglishArticulation陕西师范大学外国语学院；西北工业大学明德学院　冯军英Pronunciationlearningisakeyfactorinsecondlanguageacquisition,portantforlanguagebeginnerstolearnthecorrectsounds.Theresearchiscarriedoutthroughanexperimentdesignedfor20collegestudentsof

2、thefirstyearlocalregion.TheirfamilymembersspeaktheXi’andialectindailylife.SotheycanrepresentthegeneralconditionofXi’anstudents’Englishpronunciationtosomeextent.Thereare24consonantsphonemesinEnglishandtheyhavevoicedandvoicelessteaning.Suchas,intheepeoplepronounceitasaspirat

3、ed,themeaningeaning.SuchastheChineseCharacter(gu姑)and(ku哭),theyhavetotallydifferentmeanings.AlsoalargegroupofXi’andialectspeakersread‘house/′haus/’as‘horse/′h?蘅:s/’.Mainlybecausethemouthopenof/?蘅:/isalittlesmallerthanthesound/au/.Almostalltheparticipantsintheinvestigationm

4、eetproblemsinpronouncingthelongandshortvople,‘isused.AlsotherearesomemoremonproblemsetotheXi’andialectspeakerstudentspronounce‘eat’as/′i:t?藜/,hookas/huk?藜/.Itcanbeseenthat.BecausethesoundofthemareclosetotheChinesePinyin,like‘de,te,keandpe’.Xi’annativespeakerstudentsaleetdi

5、fficultiesaindifferenceamong/θ/,/s/,/?奁/,/z/isthatthedifferentuseofthetonguetipplace.Ho.Studentsarenotfamiliarortheypronounceitinaesimilarsoundstoreplace/θ/and/?奁/.Theyusuallypronounce/s/and/z/toreplace/θ/and/?奁/.InEnglishconsonantphoicsystem,/θ/and/?奁/aredentalfricatives,

6、/θ/isvoiceless,/?奁/isvoiced.oresuchsoundstomakesuretheygraspthecorrectpronunciation.(3)/v/and/ofmisusingbeton.Theusuallyread‘vase/sandcorrectthemintheacquisitionofEnglishsounds.AnditalsocanhelpEnglishteachersinthisareatofacilitatetheirteachingandlearningprocess.