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Effects of Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Native Japanese Second Language Learners of English.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Effects of Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Native Japanese Second Language Learners of English./
Author:	Takeda, Aya.
Description:	1 online resource (136 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-04.
Subject:	Language. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798460471331

Effects of Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Native Japanese Second Language Learners of English.
Takeda, Aya.

Effects of Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Native Japanese Second Language Learners of English. - 1 online resource (136 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references

This study investigates the influence of high pitch accent on disambiguating syntactically ambiguous sentences to explore the role of prosody in first language (LI) and second language (L2) sentence processing. English LI speakers and advanced Japanese learners of English performed a written version and an auditory version of sentence interpretation tasks containing two types of ambiguities: prepositional phrase (PP) attachment and wh-clause attachment ambiguities. The results from the written task observed Japanese learners' preference for verb attachment in both types of constructions when compared with the English L1 speakers. However, the auditory task indicated that for both LI and L2 groups, no significant effects of high pitch accent on determining the attachment site of the phrases in either type of ambiguity, indicating that pitch accent plays little role in PP attachment and wh-clause attachment disambiguation for both LI speakers and L2 learners.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798460471331Subjects--Topical Terms:

571568
Language.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Pitch accentIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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