Language Learning Ability in Adults: A Study on the Acquisition of Prosodic and Articulatory Features. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 12.
Language Learning Ability in Adults: A Study on the Acquisition of Prosodic and Articulatory Features. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 12.
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成人语言学习能力:韵律和发音特征习得的研究。
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1977
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Gerald G. Neufeld
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Gerald G. Neufeld
This paper reports on a study in which twenty young adults were tested for their ability to accurately reproduce the articulatory and prosodic features of three non-Indo-European languages in which they had received instruction. The first of two basic goals of this research was to test, at the purely phonetic level, the "critical period for language learning" hypothesis (Lenneberg, 1967). The second problem was to see if students could acquire the linguistic features associated with "language accent" with no reference to grammar or lexical meaning. Both questions are considered, with special attention to the concrete results of the study and to their implications. The final section of the paper includes a discussion of the acoustic image imprinting theory, which is the basis for the method used to teach phonetic material in this experiment. (Author) *********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the miciofiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EBBS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. **********************************************************************