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1、PerceptionofEnglishstressbyMandarinChineselearnersofEnglish:AnacousticstudybyQianWangB.A.,GuangdongUniversityofForeignStudies,China,1999M.A.,TsinghuaUniversity,China,2002AThesisSubmittedinPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsoftheDegreeofDOCTOROFPHILOSOPHYintheDepartmentofLinguist
2、ics©QianWang,2008UniversityofVictoriaAllrightsreserved.Thisthesismaynotbereproducedinwholeorinpart,byphotocopyorothermeans,withoutpermissionoftheauthor.iiSUPERVISORYCOMMITTEEPerceptionofEnglishStressbyMandarinChineseLearnersofEnglish:AnAcousticStudyByQianWangB.A.,GuangdongUniver
3、sityofForeignStudies,China,1999M.A.,TsinghuaUniversity,China,2002SupervisoryCommitteeDrHuaLin(DepartmentofLinguistics)SupervisorDrJohnEsling(DepartmentofLinguistics)DepartmentalMemberDrSonyaBird(DepartmentofLinguistics)AdditionalMemberDrRichardKing(DepartmentofPacificandAsianStu
4、dies)OutsideMemberiiiABSTRACTSupervisoryCommitteeDrHuaLin(DepartmentofLinguistics)SupervisorDrJohnEsling(DepartmentofLinguistics)DepartmentalMemberDrSonyaBird(DepartmentofLinguistics)AdditionalMemberDrRichardKing(DepartmentofPacificandAsianStudies)OutsideMemberSecondlanguagelear
5、nersofEnglishoftenexperiencedifficultiesinEnglishlexicalstressperception.Thishastraditionallybeenattributedtotransferofprosodicunitorsettingsfromtheirfirstlanguage(L1).Similarly,theproblemofChineselearnerswithEnglishstressperceptionwasassumedtoarisefromtonaltransfer.However,litt
6、leresearchhasbeendevotedtotheinvestigationofthephoneticdetailsofsecondlanguage(L2)stressperception.ThepresentresearchfocusesontheperceptionofEnglishlexicalstressbyChineselearnersofEnglish.ThepurposeofthisstudyistorevealtheuseofacousticcuesinstressperceptionbyChineselearnersofEng
7、lish.Intheexperiment,F0,durationandintensityweremanipulated,eachwithfivesteps,onthreedisyllabicnonsensewordstoresultinatotalof375nonsensetokens.AgroupofnativespeakersofEnglish(NE)andagroupofChineselearnersofEnglish(CE)participatedinthestudyandjudgedwhetherthestressivwasonthefirs
8、torsecondsyllableintheteststimuli.Theresponseso
