Simplification Strategies Adopted by Chinese Adult and Child EFL Learners
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Due to the phonotactic constraints, Chinese EFL learners may be expected to have difficulty in producing English consonant clusters and word-final single consonants. This paper attempts to make a comparative study of the English word-initial and word-final consonant clusters/consonants produced by Chinese children and adult learners and derive their phonological patterns. This study focused on the three-consonant clusters (CCC), two-consonant clusters (CC) and word-final consonants (C) in 30 words produced by 16 children and 16 adults. The results showed that difficulty rank in adults’ and children’s acquisition of consonant clusters was CCC > CC > C. Adults adopted more simplification strategies than children in onset and coda consonants. Both adults and children favored insertion more than deletion. Children tended to apply epenthesis in the onset consonant clusters, while adults were inclined to adopt epenthesis in coda consonant clusters. Adults and children adopted more deletion in onset than in coda. We claim that the results can be explained by L1 transfer, developmental factors and Markedness theories.
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Due to the phonotactic constraints, Chinese EFL learners may be expected to have difficulty in producing English consonant clusters and word-final single consonants. This paper attempts to make a comparative study of the English word-initial and word-final consonant clusters/consonants produced by Chinese children and adult learners and derive their phonological patterns. This study focused on the three-consonant clusters (CCC), two-consonant clusters (CC) and word-final consonants (C) in 30 words produced by 16 children and 16 adults. The results showed that difficulty rank in adults’ and children’s acquisition of consonant clusters was CCC > CC > C. Adults adopted more simplification strategies than children in onset and coda consonants. Both adults and children favored insertion more than deletion. Children tended to apply epenthesis in the onset consonant clusters, while adults were inclined to adopt epenthesis in coda consonant clusters. Adults and children adopted more deletion in onset than in coda. We claim that the results can be explained by L1 transfer, developmental factors and Markedness theories.
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