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This study explores the effect of age on the acquisition of second language prosody by comparing ... more This study explores the effect of age on the acquisition of second language prosody by comparing three groups of native Mandarin speaking immigrants (N=10 each), varying in age of arrival, to native American English controls (N=10). Speech samples of participants reading a paragraph were subjected to three prosodic analyses: speech rate, native speakers' judgment of foreign prosody, and analyses of intonation and prosodic groupings. Preliminary findings show that second language prosody is significantly influenced by the age of arrival factor, but the strength of the age constraints varies among different aspects of prosody.
This study explores the effect of age on the acquisition of second language prosody by comparing ... more This study explores the effect of age on the acquisition of second language prosody by comparing three groups of native Mandarin speaking immigrants (N=10 each), varying in age of arrival, to native American English controls (N=10). Speech samples of participants reading a paragraph were subjected to three prosodic analyses: speech rate, native speakers' judgment of foreign prosody, and analyses of intonation and prosodic groupings. Preliminary findings show that second language prosody is significantly influenced by the age of arrival factor, but the strength of the age constraints varies among different aspects of prosody.