The present paper deals with the peculiarities of English rhythmic structure and tone-units perception by the speakers of Chinese. The prognosis is made that it is bound to be problematic for the China English speakers to identify the analogous rhythmic structures in the phrases of different syntactic organization. Consequently, misperception of English rhythmic structures may lead to further resegmentation within the English phrase of a complex syntactic structure. The experiment has been conducted to prove this prognosis.
Cite as: Zavyalova, V., Polyanskaya, M. (2010) English rhythmic structure and tone-units perception by the speakers of Chinese. Proc. Speech Prosody 2010, paper 055
@inproceedings{zavyalova10_speechprosody,
author={Victoria Zavyalova and Marina Polyanskaya},
title={{English rhythmic structure and tone-units perception by the speakers of Chinese}},
year=2010,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2010},
pages={paper 055}
}