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- Offers insights on how EFL learners from a tone language background learn to perceive English lexical stress in sentences with a rising intonation
- Presents novel findings from a perceptual training program that uses both falling and rising intonation
- Contains valuable information for those who design training courses on lexical stress for EFL learners
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics (SBIL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Learning to perceive non-native sound contrasts can be a formidable task, particularly when learners can’t rely on cues from their native-language experience. A case in point is Mandarin-speaking EFL learners’ perception of lexical stress. They can accurately identify the stress patterns of target words in sentences that have a falling intonation. However, they experience considerable difficulties when the target words are in questions, where the intonation is rising. Where most training studies use only stimuli produced in falling intonation, we implemented a perceptual training program to examine whether Mandarin-speaking EFL learners could learn to perceive English lexical stress in both falling intonation and rising intonation.
Authors and Affiliations
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National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Shu-chen Ou
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perceptual Training on Lexical Stress Contrasts
Book Subtitle: A Study with Taiwanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language
Authors: Shu-chen Ou
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51133-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51132-6Published: 24 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51133-3Published: 23 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2197-0009
Series E-ISSN: 2197-0017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 124
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phonology and Phonetics, Language Education, Chinese