doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.2.167
Advanced Foreign Language Learners: Prosodic Transition from L1 to L3
Lijie Yang
- University College London, UK.
Abstract
This study provides more data from moretypologically distant languages and focusing on interrogativesentences. Thus, this research addresses a key gap from previousstudies that have only studied prosodic transitions betweenmore typologically close languages. Moreover, this studysuccessfully controls for the background of participants in amore detailed way by setting limitations on participants’language proficiency and the recency of their language usage.These limitations are necessary since it is difficult to conductresearch on prosodic transitions within 3 languages due to thelimited number of trilingual participants. Finally, this paperfinds that for people who speak second language (L2) and thirdlanguage (L3) with high proficiency, the influence ofphonological characters from L1 will be more prominent thanthat of L2 on L3 intonational status. This study can be improved,as the amount of data collected is limited. Besides this problem,intonational typology considered in this paper should be reevaluatedin further studies.
Keywords
- L3 acquisition
- intonation
- advanced languagelearners
How to Cite
Lijie Yang, "Advanced Foreign Language Learners: Prosodic Transition from L1 to L3," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 167-171, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.2.167
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