A Study On The Acquisition Of English Fricative And Affricate Of Chongqing Native Speakers

As we all know,Chongqing people do not distinguish between flat/raised tongue sounds when they speak their mother tongue.Then we can predict that they will also encounter certain difficulties in these aspects when they learn the second language.The purpose of this article is to analyze the pronunciation of fricative and affricate in Chongqing when they speak English.This article takes 20 students from the Middle School affiliated to Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences as the experimental object,and uses the duration and the center of gravity as relevant acoustic parameters to explore the acquisition of English fricatives and affricate by English learners in Chongqing,which enriches the research about English learning in Chongqing dialect.The research methods include:literature research method,acoustic experiment method and statistical analysis method.Guided by the theory of language transfer,this paper examines the negative transfer effect of Chongqing dialect on local English learners,and intends to solve two problems: What are the specific characteristics of fricative and affricate by English learners in Chongqing?What are the suggestions for English phonetic learning and teaching?Through the speech production experiment of these 20 English learners in Chongqing and the statistical analysis of the experimental results.It shows that the English learners in Chongqing have some significant differences with native speakers when they speak fricative and affricate.Finally,based on the experimental results,this article puts forward specific suggestions for students’ English learning and teachers’ English teaching about pronunciation,which brings some enlightenment to Chongqing’s English learning and teaching in pronunciation.