Comprehension of Focus-to-Accentuation Mapping in Sentences with "Only" by Advanced Cantonese Learners and Dutch Learners of English

Autor/inn/en	Ge, Haoyan; Chen, Aoju; Yip, Virginia
Titel	Comprehension of Focus-to-Accentuation Mapping in Sentences with "Only" by Advanced Cantonese Learners and Dutch Learners of English
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43 (2021) 1, S.25-49 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ge, Haoyan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
DOI	10.1017/S0272263120000248
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Comprehension; Sentences; Intonation; Cognitive Mapping + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Verstehen; Verständnis; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse
Abstract	This study investigates L2 comprehension of focus-to-accentuation mapping in English sentences with focus particle "only" by advanced learners of English whose L1 was either Cantonese or Dutch. Two experiments were conducted to examine (a) whether L2 learners could map accentuation to focus; and (b) whether they could perceive accentuation in English sentences. Results show that accentuation played little role in Cantonese learners' comprehension of focus, whereas it affected how accurately and quickly Dutch learners and native controls comprehended focus. Dutch learners were even more efficient than native controls in comprehending focus-to-accentuation mapping. Furthermore, both L2 groups could successfully perceive accentuation in English sentences. These findings suggest that multiple interfaces might not be equally problematic for L2 learners with different L1s, and convergence at multiple interfaces in L2 is possible. The comprehension difficulty observed in Cantonese learners can be attributed to their less detailed representation of focus-to-accentuation mapping in L2. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01