TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying L2 suprasegmental features in Asian Englishes
T2 - 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009
AU - Meng, Helen
AU - Tseng, Chiu Yu
AU - Kondo, Mariko
AU - Harrison, Alissa
AU - Viscelgia, Tanya
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This position paper highlights the importance of suprasegmental training in secondary language (L2) acquisition. Suprasegmental features are manifested in terms of acoustic cues and convey important information about linguistic and information structures. Hence, L2 learners must harness appropriate suprasegmental productions for effective communication. However, this learning process is influenced by well-established perceptions of sounds and articulatory motions in the primary language (L1). We propose to design and collect a corpus to support systematic analysis of L2 suprasegmental features. We lay out a set of carefully selected textual environments that illustrate how suprasegmental features convey information including part-of-speech, syntax, focus, speech acts and semantics. We intend to use these textual environments for collecting speech data in a variety of Asian Englishes from non-native English speakers. Analyses of such corpora should lead to research findings that have important implications for language education, as well as speech technology development for computer-aided language learning (CALL) applications.
AB - This position paper highlights the importance of suprasegmental training in secondary language (L2) acquisition. Suprasegmental features are manifested in terms of acoustic cues and convey important information about linguistic and information structures. Hence, L2 learners must harness appropriate suprasegmental productions for effective communication. However, this learning process is influenced by well-established perceptions of sounds and articulatory motions in the primary language (L1). We propose to design and collect a corpus to support systematic analysis of L2 suprasegmental features. We lay out a set of carefully selected textual environments that illustrate how suprasegmental features convey information including part-of-speech, syntax, focus, speech acts and semantics. We intend to use these textual environments for collecting speech data in a variety of Asian Englishes from non-native English speakers. Analyses of such corpora should lead to research findings that have important implications for language education, as well as speech technology development for computer-aided language learning (CALL) applications.
KW - Intonation
KW - L2 suprasegmental features
KW - Language education
KW - Prosody
KW - Stress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70450177141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=70450177141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:70450177141
SN - 2308-457X
SP - 1715
EP - 1718
JO - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
JF - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Y2 - 6 September 2009 through 10 September 2009
ER -