華語兒童對於英語詞彙的感知與音節切分

The Perception and Syllabification of English Words by Chinese-Speaking Children

蘇復興(Fu-Hsing Su) ； 黃俐絲(Li-Szu Huang)

《台灣聽力語言學會雜誌》 28期 (2012/06) Pp. 1-26

https://doi.org/10.6143/JSLHAT.2012.06.01

摘要

本研究探討台灣的華語兒童處理英語音節的狀況，觀察的重點在於這類學習者對於口語詞彙所包含的音節是否能夠正確感知與切分。我們特別挑選了就讀於不同國小的學童擔任受試者，針對31名五年級學童施以音節重複測驗，34名四年級學童施以音節刪除測驗，以及21名五年級學童施以音節數目計算測驗。透過量化的統計分析程序，本研究發現在音節重複測驗方面，受試者在雙音節測驗字和三音節測驗字上的表現並無不同。至於音節刪除測驗方面，重音位置、待刪除音節的位置、音節邊際的清晰程度三個變項對於受試者的測驗得分並沒有產生顯著的主要效果，但是他們之間卻彼此產生了顯著的交互作用效果；當我們把這三個變項同時納入考量時，同樣的效果也存在。最後，音節數目計算測驗的結果顯示，受試者對於包含CV重複結構以及音節化輔音結構的測驗字表現不相上下，對於包含雙（三）元音之結構的測驗字其表現相形遜色，對於包含輔音群結構的測驗字則最感困難。本研究的發現有助於讓我們更加瞭解華語兒童在處理英語口語詞彙時其言語感知和音節切分的實際情況。

關鍵字

音節結構 ； 言語感知 ； 音節切分 ； 重音配置

並列摘要

The current study looked into the way Chinese-speaking children perceived and syllabified English spoken words. The experimental materials comprised the Syllable Repetition Task (SRT), the Syllable Deletion Task (SDT), and the Syllable Counting Task (SCT), which were administered to 31 fifth-graders, 34 forth-graders, and 21 fifth-graders respectively. The subjects were recruited from different schools in Southern Taiwan. The outcomes of quantitative analyses revealed that the subjects performed no difference for disyllabic and trisyllabic items of the SRT. As for the SDT, the three variables of stress placement, place of target syllable, and clarity of syllable boundary were found to exert no main effect on the subjects' performance. Nonetheless, there were significant interaction effects produced by each two paired variables and all the three variables pooled together. Finally, for the SCT, the subjects performed about equally well for test items involving a reduplicated CV structure or a syllabic consonant. They encountered greater difficulty processing items involving a diphthong or triphthong structure internally and scored least well for items involving a consonant cluster. The research outcomes help to bring to light the factors that impact the perception and syllabification of English words by Chinese-speaking children.

並列關鍵字

Syllable structure ； Speech perception ； Syllabification ； Stress placement

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