Affiliation:
1. University of Oxford
2. University of Reading
3. Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Abstract
This paper presents data for a tightly controlled recognition and production study of English language intonation
in reading by speakers of British English and second language learners of English in Hong Kong. We demonstrate a relatively high
correlation between the scores for the two studies when data are separated by utterance type (statement, echo, WH-question, etc.).
Our finding that this cohort of English learners performs better at production of nuclear tones than in the corresponding
recognition study when both are judged by a template for British English adds support to the claim that the perception-production
link, a theory that production is contingent on perception, is not borne out by the empirical study of learners of World
Englishes. Data collected for the British English speakers give insight into a changing intonational phonology, while Hong Kong
data indicate differences in intonational categories, a different distribution of tones, and possibly tonal innovation.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Reference34 articles.
1. Perception of Intonation in Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
2. American English;Bolinger,1998
3. The Dynamics of the Hong Kong Accent: Social Identity and Sociolinguistic Description;Bolton;Journal of Asian Pacific Communication,1990