Non-native speech rhythm: A large-scale study of English pronunciation by Korean learners

김종미,; OhMiRa,; Flynn, Suzanne

doi:10.17959/sppm.2007.13.2.245

studiesinphoneticsphonologyandmorphology

2007

DOI: 10.17959/sppm.2007.13.2.245

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Non-native speech rhythm: A large-scale study of English pronunciation by Korean learners

김종미 김종미¹,

OhMiRa OhMiRa²,

Suzanne Flynn³

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Evaluating Korean learners’ English rhythm proficiency with measures of sentence stress

Lee

Song

2019

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Previous research has suggested that the production of speech rhythm in a second language (L2) or foreign language is influenced by the speaker’s first language rhythm. However, it is less clear how the production of L2 rhythm is affected by the learners’ L2 proficiency, largely due to the lack of rhythm metrics that show consistent results between studies. We examined the production of English rhythm by 75 Korean learners with the rhythm metrics proposed in previous studies (pairwise variability indices and interval measures). We also devised new sentence stress measures (i.e., accentuation rate and accentuation error rate) and investigated whether these new measures can quantify rhythmic differences between the learners. The results found no rhythm metric that significantly correlated with proficiency in the expected direction. In contrast, we found a significant correlation between the learners’ proficiency levels and both measures of sentence stress, showing that less-proficient learners placed sentence stress on more words and made more sentence stress errors. This demonstrates that our measures of sentence stress can be used as effective features for assessing Korean learners’ English rhythm proficiency.

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Evaluating Korean learners’ English rhythm proficiency with measures of sentence stress

Lee

Song

2019

Applied Psycholinguistics

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A Study on the Rhythm of Korean English Learners' Interlanguage Talk

Chung¹

2013

Journal of the Korean society of speech sciences

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This study investigated the rhythmic accommodation of Korean English learners' interlanguage talk. Twelve Korean speakers, 6 native English speakers and 6 non-native English speakers in London participated in multiple conversations on different topics which produced 36 conversational data in interlanguage talk (ILT) settings. 190 utterances from the 36 conversational data were analyzed to investigate the rhythmic patterns of Korean English learners when they communicated with English speakers with different language backgrounds. Save for the final-syllable, the normalized duration of consecutive syllables was compared in order to derive a variability index (VI). It was found that there was no significant variability in the measurement of the syllable-to-syllable duration for the utterances of Korean English learners, regardless of their interlocutor's language background. Conversely, it was found that there was evidence that Korean English learners showed rhythmic accommodation in ILT when they conversed with non-native English speakers. The speaking rate became significantly slower when Korean English learners talked to non-native English speakers, than when they talked to other Korean English learners. Furthermore, there was a negative correlation between speaking rate and the VI in the utterances of Korean English learners in ILT.

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A study on the features of English as a lingua franca in Asian contexts: Rhythmic features

Chung¹,

Lee²,

Kim³

2016

Journal of the Korean society of speech sciences

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This paper investigated the rhythmic features of speakers of English as a lingua franca in Asian contexts. A speech corpus of 150 conversations between speakers of English in Asia with different L1 backgrounds was collected and %V, ΔV, VarcoV, and nPVI-V of each speaker were analyzed. It was found that L1 difference of the speakers and the speakers' daily use of English influenced %V, while the speakers' daily use of English influenced ΔV. The gender difference of the speakers also affected the rhythm of the utterances in VarcoV. A weak correlation between the two speakers' rhythm in each conversation was also found in %V and ΔV. No significant effects were found in nPVI-V. The results revealed that the speakers tended to accommodate the rhythm of their utterance to that of the interlocutors'. Further study on the speaking rate of the speakers is required to overcome some inconsistencies found in the results of the rhythmic metrics used in this study.

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Non-native speech rhythm: A large-scale study of English pronunciation by Korean learners

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Evaluating Korean learners’ English rhythm proficiency with measures of sentence stress

Evaluating Korean learners’ English rhythm proficiency with measures of sentence stress

A Study on the Rhythm of Korean English Learners' Interlanguage Talk

A study on the features of English as a lingua franca in Asian contexts: Rhythmic features

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