L3 prosody

Abstract

The direction of (CLI) of phonological among L1, L2, and L3 of a depends indispensably on the proficiency levels of the L2 and the L3. speakers in Guangdong Province have as an L2 and as an L3, while Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong have English as an L2 and Mandarin as an L3. This study aims to examine the CLI of Cantonese multilinguals’ span and the existence of the neutral on the of stressed syllables and the duration of unstressed syllables in their English utterances. The study analyzed English and Mandarin speech data collected from 18 Cantonese multilinguals from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province. The results revealed progressive and regressive phonological across the three languages spoken by the with different L2 and L3 proficiency levels.