Japanese Overseas Students' Prosodic Features Of Nuclear Stress In Declarative Sentences

This thesis looks into Japanese overseas students'prosodic features of nuclear stress in declarative sentences. Based on an articulation experiment composed of 16 sentences groups(each sentence group has three sentences which have no difference except the focus), the thesis observes the prosodic features of 13 Japanese overseas students who are all female aging from 23 to 26 and have passed HSK level 7.These prosodic features include pitch, duration, tones'range, creaky voice, etc.By analyzing the experiment results, we find that Japanese overseas students have a fixed prosodic mode when they try to express a nuclear stress in statement sentences, and that they are not quite skilled in using prosodic features (pitch gap, tones'range, etc.) to emphasize the nuclear stress, therefore, the stress they present ultimately is often not matched with the one which they targeted to express.The research findings in this thesis not only richens the field of Chinese second language acquisition study, but also helps Chinese phonetic teaching to be more efficiently.