The English Sounds Perception And Production Mode Of China College Students From Jiangsu

Previous research in Motor Theory has demonstrated that speech perception is the reverse translation of articulation. It has been proposed that first, it is considered as motor because it takes the proper object of phonetic perception to be a motor event. Second, it assumes that adaptations of the motor system for controlling the organs of the vocal tract took precedence in the evolution of speech (Liberman and Mattingly, 1985). This hypothesis of the strong correlation between perception and production was evaluated in this study by investigating into whether the output of the perception and production of English sounds share the same quality. A study examined the perception (Experiment I) and production (Experiment II) of 10 English monophthongs, 8 diphthongs and 4 consonants by Chinese college students, who have studied English as a foreign language for about ten years. The results suggest that there is no significant correlation between the two processes. The results are now taken as a strong objection to the hypothesis of the Motor Theory. At the same time, the author of this thesis had also made analysis to test the perception correlationship among the three categories of English sounds, namely monophthongs, diphthongs and consonants. The findings are that monophthongs and consonants have a relative low relationship within themselves while diphthongs seem not to have great correlation either with monophthongs or with consonants and vise...