Abstract:This paper analyses the mastery of English word stress of China’s Tibetan Amdo English learners, by means of acoustic phonetics. According to the “Negative Transfer” theory, as the mother language of Amdo doesn’t have word stress, this will put negative influence to the learning of English stress and their pronunciation of it will be poor. However, the result of this study shows that these learners’ grasp of English word stress is better than prediction, with an overall accuracy of 70% percent. Among the findi… Show more
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