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d the shape and width of mouth, but the diphthongs in Chinese do not have these characteristics. When pronouncing a diphthong in Chinese, the shape of mouth is relaxed, and there is no obvious process of gliding.

　　(5)/i/ is sometimes pronounced by Chinese students as /ei/ when following an “h”. That is because /h/ and /i/ never appear together in Chinese. What’s more, “h”(/x/) in Chinese is a velar fricative while /h/ in English is a glottal. Thus history (/`hist ri/) is often pronounced by some Chinese students as/`heist ri/ and he (/hi:/) as /hei/(like “嘿” in Chinese).

 

　　2. 代写essay Suprasegmental Analysis on Pronunciation Problem

 

　　Nunan argues that suprasegmental contrast is particularly important when moving from a non-tonal language like English, in which pitch changes indicate attitudinal and emotional meaning, to a tonal language like Thai in which changes in intonation and pitch mark phonemic differences. This part is to discuss the Chinese students’ pronunciation problems by analysis from suprasegmental aspects—stress, intonation and liasion:

 

　　2.1 Analysis in Stress

　　Stress patterns are vital in English pronunciation, and sometimes the stress alteration will result in the change of part of speech such as nouns and verbs which is confusing to the beginning learners. For instance, record /ri`k d/ is a verb with its stress on the second syllable, while record /`rek d/ is a noun with its stress on the first syllable, and content /k n`tent/ is a verb, while /`k nt nt/ is a noun. The beginning learners cannot distinguish this because in Chinese tone is used to distinguish words and it only has sentence stress, while English has primary stress and secondary stress both in words and sentences.

　　The beginning learners tend to stress each syllable when reading an English word and stress each word when reading an English sentence. For example, they usually pronounce greenhouse /`gri:nhaus/ as /`gri:n `hause/, blackboard /`bl kb :d/ as /`bl k `b :d/. And because in their native speech each word is read with almost equal stress, they tend to stress each word in a sentence.

　　Students should know that English is timed by stress; when reading an English sentence, we do not consider how many syllables in a sentence, and the non-stressed words are usually read vaguely.

 

　　2.2 Analysis in Intonation

　　English is generally regarded as an intonation language, while Chinese is a tone language. In English, the change of intonation in a sentence can be used to express different meanings and different emotions of the speaker. English has a number of intonation patterns which add conventionalized meanings to the utterance: question, statement, surprise, disbelief, sarcasm, teasing. The most active elements of intonation are the tones, which always occur in association with stress.

　　Although both Chinese and English have tones, there are differences in the functions of the tones between the two languages. In a tone language like Chinese, the tone system is an integral part of the vocabulary. There are four tones in Chinese. English is quite different in this respect. The English tones are used according to the contexts. They function at the level of utterances (or discourse), not at lexical level as in Chinese. Students should have such knowledge about intonation and tone. They should know a certain tone in Englis本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。