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KMID : 1022420130050030003
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2013 Volume.5 No. 3 p.3 ~ p.10
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A Study on the Rhythm of Korean English Learners’ Interlanguage Talk
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Chung Hyun-Song
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Abstract
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This study investigated the rhythmic accommodation of Korean English learners’ interlanguage talk. Twelve Korean speakers, 6 native English speakers and 6 non-native English speakers in London participated in multiple conversations on different topics which produced 36 conversational data in interlanguage talk (ILT) settings. 190 utterances from the 36conversational data were analyzed to investigate the rhythmic patterns of Korean English learners when they communicated with English speakers with different language backgrounds. Save for the final-syllable, the normalized duration of consecutive syllables was compared in order to derive a variability index (VI). It was found that there was no significant variability in the measurement of the syllable-to-syllable duration for the utterances of Korean English learners, regardless of their interlocutor’s language background. Conversely, it was found that there was evidence that Korean English learners showed rhythmic accommodation in ILT when they conversed with non-native English speakers. The speaking rate became significantly slower when Korean English learners talked to non-native English speakers, than when they talked to other Korean English learners. Furthermore, there was a negative correlation between speaking rate and the VI in the utterances of Korean English learners in ILT.
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KEYWORD
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lingua franca core (LFC), rhythm, interlanguage talk (ILT), English as a lingua franca (ELF), accommodation
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