Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Nonlinguistic Factors that Affect the Degree of Foreign Accent in Second Language Mandarin Cover

Nonlinguistic Factors that Affect the Degree of Foreign Accent in Second Language Mandarin

By: Lani Freeborn and  John Rogers  
Open Access
|Jun 2019

References

  1. Bergeron, Annie & Pavel Trofimovich. 2017. Linguistic dimensions of accentedness and comprehensibility: Exploring task and listener effects in second language French. Foreign Language Annals 50(3). 547–566.10.1111/flan.12285
  2. Bowles, Anita R., Charles B. Chang & Valerie P. Karuzis. 2016. Pitch ability as an aptitude for tone learning. Language Learning 66(4). 774–808.10.1111/lang.12159
  3. China Education Centre Ltd. 2016. HSK Speaking Test. http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/hsk/hskadvanced.php (accessed 21 December 2017).
  4. Derwing, Tracey M. & Murray J. Munro. 1997. Accent, intelligibility and comprehensibility: Evidence from four L1s. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 20. 1–16.10.1017/S0272263197001010
  5. Derwing, Tracey M. & Murray J. Munro. 2013. The development of L2 oral skills in two L1 groups: A 7-year study. Language Learning 63(2). 163–185.10.1111/lang.12000
  6. Derwing, Tracey M. & Marian J. Rossiter. 2003. The effects of pronunciation instruction on the accuracy, fluency, and complexity of L2 accented speech. Applied Language Learning 13(1). 1–17.
  7. Flege, James, Elaine M. Frieda & Takeshi Nozawa. 1997. Amount of native-language (L1) use affects the pronunciation of an L2. Journal of Phonetics 25(2). 169–186.10.1006/jpho.1996.0040
  8. Flege, James & Serena Liu. 2001. The effect of experience on adults’ acquisition of a second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 23(4). 527–522.10.1017/S0272263101004041
  9. Flege, James, Murray J. Munro & Ian, R. A. MacKay. 1995. Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language. Acoustical Society of America 97(5). 3125–3134.10.1121/1.413041
  10. Godfroid, Aline, Chin-His Lin & Catherine Ryu. 2017. Hearing and seeing tone through color: An efficacy study of web-based, multimodal Chinese tone perception training. Language Learning 67(4). 819–857.10.1111/lang.12246
  11. Guion, Susan, James E. Flege & Jonathan D. Loftin. 2000. The effect of L1 use on pronunciation in Quichua-Spanish bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics 28. 27–42.10.1006/jpho.2000.0104
  12. Hao, Yen-Chen. 2012. Second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones by tonal and non-tonal language speakers. Journal of Phonetics 40(2). 269–279.10.1016/j.wocn.2011.11.001
  13. Hao, Yen-Chen. 2018. Contextual effect in second language perception and production of Mandarin tones. Speech Communication 97. 32–42.10.1016/j.specom.2017.12.015
  14. Hosmer, David W. & Stanley Lemeshow. 2000. Applied logistic regression. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.10.1002/0471722146
  15. Jesney, Karen. 2004. The use of global foreign accent rating in studies of L2 acquisition. Calgary, AB: Language Research Centre, University of Calgary.
  16. Jiang, Xiaoli & Andrew D. Cohen. 2018. Learner strategies for dealing with pronunciation issues in Mandarin. System 76. 25–37.10.1016/j.system.2018.04.012
  17. Kang, Okim. 2010. Relative salience of suprasegmental features on judgments of L2 comprehensibility and accentedness. System 38(2). 301–315.10.1016/j.system.2010.01.005
  18. Kinsella, Ciara & David Singleton. 2014. Much more than age. Applied Linguistics 35(4). 441–462.10.1093/applin/amu032
  19. Levins, John M. 2016. Accent in second language pronunciation research and teaching. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2(2). 153–159.10.1075/jslp.2.2.01lev
  20. MacKay, Ian. R. A., James E. Flege & Satomi Imai. 2006. Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent. Applied Psycholinguistics 27(2). 157–183.10.1017/S0142716406060231
  21. Major, Roy C. 1986. Paragoge and degree of foreign accent in Brazilian English. Second Language Research 2(1). 53–71.10.1177/026765838600200104
  22. Marian, Victoria, Henrike K. Blumenfeld & Margarita Kaushanskaya. 2007. The language experience and proficiency questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 50(4). 940–967.10.1044/1092-4388(2007/067)
  23. Moyer, Alene. 1999. Ultimate attainment in L2 phonology: The critical factors of age, motivation, and instruction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 21. 81–108.10.1017/S0272263199001035
  24. Moyer, Alene. 2007. Do language attitudes determine accent? A study of bilinguals in the USA. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28(6). 502–518.10.2167/jmmd514.0
  25. Moyer, Alene. 2013. Foreign accent: The phenomenon of non-native speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511794407
  26. Moyer, Alene. 2016. The puzzle of gender effects in L2 phonology. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2(1). 8–28.10.1075/jslp.2.1.01moy
  27. Munro, Murray J. & Tracey M. Derwing. 1998. The effects of speaking rate on listener evaluation of native and foreign-accented speech. Language Learning 48(2). 159–182.10.1111/1467-9922.00038
  28. Munro, Murray J. & Tracey M. Derwing. 1999. Foreign accent, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in the speech of second language learners. Language learning 49(1). 285–310.10.1111/0023-8333.49.s1.8
  29. Munro, Murray J. & Tracey M. Derwing. 2011. The foundations of accent and intelligibility in pronunciation research. Language Teaching 44(3). 316–327.10.1017/S0261444811000103
  30. Pallant, Julie. 2010. SPSS Survival Manual. United Kingdom: Open University Press.
  31. Penfield, Wilder & Lamar Roberts. 1959. Speech and brain-mechanisms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  32. Piske, Thorsten, Ian R. A. MacKay & James E. Flege. 2001. Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: A review. Journal of Phonetics 29(2). 191–215.10.1006/jpho.2001.0134
  33. Plonsky, Luke (ed.). 2015. Advancing quantitative methods in second language research. New York: Routledge.10.4324/9781315870908
  34. Plonsky, Luke & Frederick L. Oswald. 2014. How big is “big”? Interpreting effect sizes in L2 research. Language Learning 64(4). 878–912.10.1111/lang.12079
  35. Polat, Nihat. 2011. Gender differences in motivation and L2 accent attainment: An investigation of young Kurdish learners of Turkish. Language Learning Journal 39(1). 19–41.10.1080/09571730903545251
  36. Polat, Nihat & Diane L. Schallert. 2013. Kurdish adolescents acquiring Turkish: Their self-determined motivation and identification with L1 and L2 communities as predictors of L2 accent attainment. The Modern Language Journal 97(3). 745–763.10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.12033.x
  37. Purcell, Edward T. & Richard W. Suter. 1980. Predictors of pronunciation accuracy: A re-examination. Language Learning 30(2). 271–287.10.1111/j.1467-1770.1980.tb00319.x
  38. Saito, Kazuya. 2015. Experience effects on the development of late second language learners’ oral proficiency. Language Learning 65(3). 563–595.10.1111/lang.12120
  39. Saito, Kazuya, Pavel Trofimovich & Talia Isaacs. 2015. Using listener judgements to investigate linguistic influences on L2 comprehensibility and accentedness: A validation and generalisation study. Applied Linguistics 36(4). 1–25.10.1093/applin/amv047
  40. Saito, Kazuya, Pavel Trofimovich & Talia Isaacs. 2016. Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels. Applied Psycholinguistics 37(2). 217–240.10.1017/S0142716414000502
  41. Sereno, Joan, Lynne Lammers & Allard Jongman. 2016. The relative contribution of segments and intonation to the perception of foreign-accented speech. Applied Psycholinguistics 37(2). 303–322.10.1017/S0142716414000575
  42. Slevc, L. Robert & Akira Miyake. 2006. Individual differences in second-language proficiency: Does musical ability matter? Psychological Science 17(8). 675–681.10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01765.x
  43. So, Connie K & Catherine T. Best. 2010. Cross-language perception of non-native tonal contrasts: Effects of native phonological and phonetic influences. Language and Speech 53. 273–293.10.1177/0023830909357156
  44. Sun, Chaofen. 2006. Chinese: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511755019
  45. Suter, Richard W. 1976. Predictors of pronunciation accuracy in second language learning. Language Learning 26(2). 233–253.10.1111/j.1467-1770.1976.tb00275.x
  46. Tabachnick, Barbara G. & Linda S. Fidell. 2013. Using multivariate statistics, 6th edn. Boston, MA & London: Pearson.
  47. Tahta, Sonia, Margaret Wood & Kate Loewenthal. 1981. Foreign accents: Factors relating to transfer of accent from the first language to a second language. Language and Speech 24(3). 265–272.10.1177/002383098102400306
  48. Thompson, Irene. 1991. Foreign accents revisited: The English pronunciation of Russian immigrants. Language Learning 41(2). 177–204.10.1111/j.1467-1770.1991.tb00683.x
  49. Trofimovich, Pavel & Talia Isaacs. 2012. Disentangling accent from comprehensibility. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15(4). 905–916.10.1017/S1366728912000168
  50. Trofimovich, Pavel, Talia Isaacs, Sara Kennedy, Kazuya Saito & Dustin Crowther. 2016. Flawed self-assessment: Investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(1). 122–140.10.1017/S1366728914000832
  51. Uzal, Melike, Teemu Peltonen, Minna Huotilainen & Olli Aaltonen. 2015. Degree of perceived accent in Finnish as a second language for Turkish children born in Finland. Language Learning 65(3). 477–503.10.1111/lang.12126
  52. Wang, Xinchun. 2013. Perception of Mandarin Tones: The effect of L1 background and training. The Modern Language Journal 97(1). 144–160.10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.01386.x
  53. Wayland, Ratree. 1997. Non-native production of Thai: Acoustic measurements and accentedness ratings. Applied Linguistics 18(3). 345–373.10.1093/applin/18.3.345
  54. Yang, Bei. 2012. The gap between perception and production of tones by American learners of Mandarin – An intralingual perspective. Chinese as a Second Language Research 1(1). 33–53.10.1515/caslar-2012-0003
  55. Yang, Chunsheng. 2016. The acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody: From experimental studies to pedagogical practice. Philadelphia & Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.10.1075/bpa.1
  56. Zhao, Yang. 2011. A tree in the wood: A review of research on L2 Chinese acquisition. Second Language Research 27(4). 559–572.10.1177/0267658311417836
  57. Zybert, Jerzy & Sabina Stepien. 2009. Musical intelligence and foreign language learning. Research in Language 7. 99–111.10.2478/v10015-009-0007-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2470-8275 | Journal ISSN: 1017-1274
Language: English
Page range: 75 - 99
Submitted on: Jun 7, 2018
|
Accepted on: Nov 21, 2018
|
Published on: Jun 28, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2019 Lani Freeborn, John Rogers, published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.