An analysis of prosodic boundaries across speaking styles in two varieties of German

Ludusan, Bogdan; Schuppler, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.specom.2022.05.002

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“…In recent studies, prosodic features are proved to play crucial roles in turn taking, including boundary tones, rhythm, pitch peak, key shift, pause, lengthening etc. (Truckenbrodt, 2015;Féry, 2016;Ludusn & Schuppler, 2022;Xia et al, 2014Xia et al, , 2023Xia, 2013;Xia & Ma, 2016a, 2016b, 2019.…”

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A Review of Research on the Chinese EFL Learners’ Production of Linguistic Prosody in Turn Organization

Xia

2023

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Prosody features play crucial roles in the management and organization of conversations, among which turn-taking plays crucial roles in conversation organization. The appropriate use of prosodic features is an indispensable part of conversation strategies or skills, but the interaction between linguistic prosody and turn-taking is difficult to be acquired for EFL learners. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical studies of interrelation between prosody and turn-taking, and the EFL learners’ acquisition of prosody in conversation organization in order to supply references for future studies in the similar fields.

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A Review of Research on the Chinese EFL Learners’ Production of Linguistic Prosody in Turn Organization

Xia

2023

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“…As is known, there are numerous prosodic factors functioning in turn taking: boundary tones, rhythm, pitch peak, key shift, pause, lengthening etc. (Truckenbrodt, 2015;Féry, 2016;Ludusn & Schuppler, 2022;Xia et al, 2004Xia et al, , 2023Xia, 2013;Xia & Ma, 2016a, 2016b, 2019. The present work focuses on two of them, which are related to the rhythm of speech, because these two variables play crucial roles in turn-taking, and they are well studied in L1 spontaneous speech, which offer a reliable reference to the study of L2 learners' language, for example, Petrone et al (2017) analyzed the three acoustic prosodic features: pauses, phrase-final lengthening and f0 in German speech production and how these cues affect boundary perception.…”

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“…This finding is in agreement with earlier findings of Jefferson (1989);Campione andVerones (2002) (as cited in Bosh et al, 2005, p. 82). Ludusn and Schuppler (2022) analyzed four acoustic cues, representing durational and fundamental frequency (f0) measures, and observed that pause duration was the strongest cue to prosodic boundaries.…”

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A Research on the Use of Pause and Lengthening for Turn Organization in Chinese EFL Students’ Conversations

Xia

2023

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Pause and lengthening are used frequently for turn organization in English interactions. But, for Chinese EFL learners, these two prosodic mechanisms are not used efficiently. This study analyzed the use of pause and lengthening for turn organization in Chinese EFL learners’ English conversations. The results show the excessive dependence on the pause to show the turn yielding intentions in Chinese learners’ conversations, and Chinese learners probably cannot distinguish the uses of final lengthening within turns and the lengthening before turn changes.

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“…Due to the significance of boundary tones in organization of English conversations (Halliday, 1970;Crystal, 1975;Gumperz, 1982;Couper-Kuhlen, 1986;Petrone et al, 2017;Ludusn & Schuppler, 2022; learners' use of boundary tones during the process of turn-taking for conversation organization (Sacks, et al, 1974;Romero-Trillo, 2019), and attempts to answer the following questions:…”

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A Research on the Use of Boundary Tone as a Turn-taking Mechanism in Chinese EFL Students’ Conversations

Xia

2023

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The boundary tone is one of the crucial mechanisms for the organization of English conversations. But for Chinese learners, the acquisition of this mechanism is not satisfying. This study examines the use of boundary tones at the turn transitions in Chinese EFL learners’ elicited English conversations. The results indicate that Chinese learners are not proficient in the use of boundary tones to show their intentions in turn exchanges, and the misuse of low L-L% boundary tone is the most prominent.

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An analysis of prosodic boundaries across speaking styles in two varieties of German

Cited by 19 publications

References 46 publications

A Review of Research on the Chinese EFL Learners’ Production of Linguistic Prosody in Turn Organization

A Review of Research on the Chinese EFL Learners’ Production of Linguistic Prosody in Turn Organization

A Research on the Use of Pause and Lengthening for Turn Organization in Chinese EFL Students’ Conversations

A Research on the Use of Boundary Tone as a Turn-taking Mechanism in Chinese EFL Students’ Conversations

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