Cason Nia, Marmursztejn Muriel, D'Imperio Mariapaola, Schön Daniele
Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France.
Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Lang Speech. 2020 Mar;63(1):149-165. doi: 10.1177/0023830919826334. Epub 2019 Feb 13.
While many studies have demonstrated the relationship between musical rhythm and speech prosody, this has been rarely addressed in the context of second language (L2) acquisition. Here, we investigated whether musical rhythmic skills and the production of L2 speech prosody are predictive of one another. We tested both musical and linguistic rhythmic competences of 23 native French speakers of L2 English. Participants completed perception and production music and language tests. In the prosody production test, sentences containing trisyllabic words with either a prominence on the first or on the second syllable were heard and had to be reproduced. Participants were less accurate in reproducing penultimate accent placement. Moreover, the accuracy in reproducing phonologically disfavored stress patterns was best predicted by rhythm production abilities. Our results show, for the first time, that better reproduction of musical rhythmic sequences is predictive of a more successful realization of unfamiliar L2 prosody, specifically in terms of stress-accent placement.
虽然许多研究已经证明了音乐节奏与言语韵律之间的关系，但在第二语言（L2）习得的背景下，这一点很少被提及。在此，我们研究了音乐节奏技能与第二语言言语韵律的产生是否相互预测。我们测试了23名以法语为母语的英语学习者的音乐和语言节奏能力。参与者完成了感知和生成音乐及语言测试。在韵律生成测试中，参与者会听到包含在第一个或第二个音节上有重音的三音节词的句子，并必须进行复述。参与者在复述倒数第二个重音位置时不太准确。此外，节奏生成能力最能预测在语音上不受欢迎的重音模式的复述准确性。我们的结果首次表明，更好地再现音乐节奏序列预示着更成功地实现不熟悉的第二语言韵律，特别是在重音位置方面。
