- 著者
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奥村 匡子
Okumura Kyoko
- 出版者
- 神奈川大学言語研究センター
- 雑誌
- 神奈川大学言語研究 (ISSN:09153136)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- no.38, pp.23-41, 2015
It has previously been indicated that shadowing has a beneficial effect on pronunciation in terms of prosody. This study analyzed the speech of Vietnamese learners in terms of changes in their accentand intonation, over a period of four months of shadowing practice. The results demonstrated that: 1) word accents increased in accuracy; 2) the intonation of the ka at the end of interrogative sentencesbegan to be inflected upwards; and 3) the intonation of the yo at theend of sentences expressing transmission of information continuedto be expressed as a rising tone, though it is supposed to be a fallingtone. It was the shift in focus towards phonetics that assisted Vietnamese learners in achieving overall improvement in their fourmonth period of pronunciation study.