声明
List of Abbreviations
Chapter1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the Study
1.2 Background of the Research
1.3 Research Questions and Hypotheses
1.4 Significance of the Research
1.5 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 English Prosody
2.1.1 English Stress and Acoustic Correlates of Stress
2.1.2 English Intonation
2.2 Chinese Prosody
2.2.1 Chinese Tone and Acoustic Correlate of Tone
2.2.2 Chinese Intonation
2.3 Theoretical Framework
2.3.1 Language Transfer
2.3.2 Stress Typology Model
2.3.3 Native Language Magnet Model
2.4 Previous Studies on English Stress Perception
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Participants
3.2 Stimuli
3.3 Procedures
3.4 Scoring and Statistical Analysis
Chapter 4 Results
4.1 Acoustic Analysis of the Stimuli
4.2 Lexical Stress Perception in Group NE and Group NC
4.3 Lexical Stress Perception in Chinese Group H and Group L
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Discussion
5.1 Effects of Stress-Intonation Interplay in Group NE and Group NC
5.2 L2 Proficiency
5.3 Summary
Conclusion
参考文献
Appendix A 40 Target Stimuli
Appendix B 40 Fillers
Appendix C Acoustic Measurements of the Stressed and Unstressed Vowels of the Target Stimuli in the Falling Intonation
Appendix D Acoustic Measurements of the Stressed and Unstressed Vowels of the Target Stimuli in the Rising Intonation
Appendix EResearch Consent Form
Appendix F 详细中文摘要
致谢
湖南大学;