The Influence of Breathing Function in Speech on Mastering English Pronunciation by Chinese Students

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10.2991/assehr.k.200205.008How to use a DOI?

Keywords

pronunciation, phonographic (phonetic) languages, syllabic (logographic) languages, speech breath, ergospirometry

Abstract

The relevance of the topic is due to the need to search for effective methods of teaching English pronunciation skills to speakers of ideographic languages. Thus, the Chinese language belongs to the group of «syllabic» (logographic, ideographic) languages, each syllable being represented with a certain hieroglyph and associated with a certain meaning. English is a phonetic (phonographic) language, and the meaning is built up with morphemes, usually consisting of several phonemes represented by letters. The research question is, how breathing habits in contact languages influence the success of learning. We claim that Chinese speakers tend to make a pause after each one or two syllables. English speakers pronounce longer breath groups with a big number of syllables without pauses. The purpose of the paper is to describe the general speech respiratory models for English and Chinese speakers and to measure the difference. It is done with the method of ergospirometry. In addition, the speech breath habits of a smoker and non-smoker are compared.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Irina Yu. Pavlovskaya
AU  - Lan Hao
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/13
TI  - The Influence of Breathing Function in Speech on Mastering English Pronunciation by Chinese Students
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 35
EP  - 42
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200205.008
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200205.008
ID  - Pavlovskaya2020
ER  -