TITLE:
Analysis on Sichuan College Students’ Segmental Phoneme Errors
AUTHORS:
Chuandong Ma, Lunhua Tan
KEYWORDS:
English Pronunciation; Segmental Phoneme; Language Transfer; Error Analysis; Contrast Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.4 No.6,
June
13,
2013
ABSTRACT: The
negative transfer of mother tongue has a big influence on the students in
Sichuan when they learn English pronunciation. Based on the contrast analysis
and error analysis theory, this paper analyzes the recordings of students’ oral
English test and summarizes the errors the students make when they learn the
segmental phonemes: 1) Students use phonemes in Sichuan dialect to take place
those similar in English; 2) Students confuse nasal consonant [n-] with lateral consonant [l-]; 3) Students find it difficult to distinguish ending consonants [-n] and [-η]; 4) A lot of students
can not pronounce [r] correctly; 5) Few of
the students pay attention to the quality differences of long vowels and short
vowels; 6) Many students mispronounce the combinations of consonants [f, v, s, z, r, h, k, g] + [i, i:];
7) In [s + p/t/k] combination, students give a strong aspiration for [p/t/k]; 8)
Students like to add a vowel sound in the consonant clusters; 9) They sometimes add a vowel after the ending
consonants.