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Making Use Of Prosodic Resources in a New Language: Self-repetition In Wh-Questions in Talk-In-Interaction
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In: McNair Symposium (2021)
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Abstract:
There is a growing body of research being conducted on L2 prosodic acquisition, production, and variation. The studies have analyzed data from a variety of L1s and have primarily focused on the impact of age of acquisition and proficiency level on L2 prosody. Additionally, almost all of these studies have investigated this area using spoken language elicited in highly controlled experimental settings that make use of readaloud tasks designed to elicit a particular response, which weakens the ecological validity of the studies. In contrast, this study collected naturalistic language data of an L1 Mandarin speaker of English and analyzed it using principles from interactional linguistics to account for the interactional context of the language in the analysis. Specifically, it asked: 1) how does a novice language user make use of prosodic resources in wh-questions for interactional work? and 2) do those prosodic resources change over time as the language proficiency changes? In total, 40 wh-questions were collected including 24 self-repeated questions which were then analyzed for prosodic and sequential structure using methods from acoustic phonetics, phonology, and interactional linguistics. It was found that, interactionally, the repeated questions fell into two categories: repetition for self and repetition for others. Further, the repeat questions in these distinct interactional contexts were accompanied by consistent prosodic and semiotic modifications and the employment of such modifications changed as her proficiency increased. This not only offers additional insight into the ways that L2 speakers make use of prosody, at a particular proficiency level and across time, but provides support for an interactional prosody framework because the prosodic contributions to the utterance meaning cannot be separated from the sequential features of the talk.
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Linguistics
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URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/context/mcnairsymposium/article/1038/type/native/viewcontent
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mcnairsymposium/2021/presentations/8
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