阿拉伯英语学习者的复合词重音

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.20.1.06

Safi Eldeen Alzi'abi

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摘要

复合词在英语中无处不在。强调复合词对英语学习者和母语人士来说是困难的，尤其是当意义不是组成部分的总和时。本研究探讨了阿拉伯英语学习者的压力策略，并概述了他们的困难。它考察了这些因素中是否有任何一个（a）单词类别，（b）正字法，（c）对语音和音韵学的理解，（d）年龄和（e）平均绩点（GPA）影响他们的行为和成功水平。它涉及130名约旦英语专业二年级和三年级学生，他们阅读了50个不透明的非频繁复合词，25个带右重音，25个带有左重音。大多数人选择了正确的压力，产生了大约一半的正确刺激。它们在各种拼写形式的复合动词、名词和形容词中更常被右重音。他们的表现受到语音和音韵学研究、压力训练和平均成绩的轻微影响。然而，他们的压力表现和年龄之间没有明显的关系。值得注意的是，受试者在复合词重音产生方面需要更多的训练。

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Arab Efl Learners’ Stress of Compound Words

Compound words are ubiquitous in English. Stressing compounds is difficult for EFL learners and native speakers, especially when the meaning is not a sum of the constituent parts. This study explores Arab EFL learners’ stress strategies and outlines their difficulties. It examines whether any of these factors (a) word class, (b) orthography, (c) understanding of phonetics and phonology, (d) age and (e) grade point average (GPA) influence their behaviour and levels of success. It involves 130 second and third-year Jordanian English majors in reading 50 opaque non-frequent compound words, 25 with right-stress and 25 with left-stress. The majority opted for right-stress, producing about half of the stimuli correctly. They right-stressed more often in compound verbs, nouns and adjectives of all spelling forms. Their performance was slightly influenced by the study of phoneticsandphonology, training in stress and GPA. However, there was no noticeable relationship between their stress performance and age. Notably, the subjects needed more training in compound word stress production.

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.