济南方言对英语语音习得的迁移作用
关键词 方言 英语语音习得 迁移作用
毕业论文外文摘要
Title Transfer of Jinan Dialect on English Pronunciation Acquisition
Abstract
This thesis aims to study the transfer of Jinan dialect on English pronunciation acquisition through error analysis and contrastive analysis. The research data is collected and analyzed by questionnaire and pronunciation test, and 30 students from Jinan Foreign Language School (senior high school) grade one are selected as the participants. The transfer of Jinan dialect on English pronunciation acquisition is found out as the following: First Jinan students tend to replace the long vowels with the short ones like replacing /i:/ with /i/. Second open vowels and diphthongs, which need large openness of the mouth, can’t be pronounced well by Jinan students. So it results in pronunciation errors like mispronouncing / æ / as / e / and the diphthongs like / ai / can’t be pronounced correctly. Third for the sounds which exist in English but are absent in Jinan dialect, Jinan student tend to replace the absent sound with the sound they have acquired, for example they replace the /v/ sound with /w/. Fourth the r-ending retroflection in Jinan dialect helps the student to acquire the /r/ sound in American accent. Last Jinan students tend to add additional vowels like / u/ / ə/ to words ending with sounds such as /t/ /d/.
Keywords dialect English pronunciation acquisition transfer
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 2
1.1 Research Background 2
1.2 The subject of the Research 2
1.3 The Scope of the Research 2
1.4 The Significance of the Research 2
1.5 The Organization of the Thesis 2
2 Literature Review 2
2.1 The Definition of Language Transfer 2
2.2 The Phenomenon of Language Transfer 2
2.3 Pronunciation Transfer 2
3 Theoretical Frameworks 2
3.1 Error Analysis 2
3.2 Contrastive Analysis 2
4 Research Design 2
4.1 Participants 2
4.2 Questionnaire 2
4.3 Pronunciation Tests 2
5 Findings and Discussion 2
5.1 Confusable vowels 2
5.2 Confusable Consonants 2
5.3 Additional Vowels in Words Ending with Consonants 2
5.4 Positive Transfer of R-ending Retroflection 2
Conclusion 2