封面
声明
致谢
中文摘要
英文摘要
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
目录
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Rationale and significance of the study
1.2 Bilingualism and multilingualism in mainland China
1.3 Research questions
1.4 Choice of speech contrasts and Chinese bilinguals
1.5 General introduction to methodology
1.6 Organization of thesis
Chapter 2 Literature review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Speech learning:The importance of speech perception
2.3 Theories of L2 speech learning: On segments and lexical stress
2.4 L3 speech learning:Theories, findings and problems
2.5 English speech learning by Chinese learners of English:An overview
2.6 Relevant studies on chosen speech contrasts:Segments and lexical stress
2.7 Summary
Chapter 3 English, Beijing Chinese, Changsha Chinese, and Cantonese Chinese:Segments and suprasegmental properties
3.1 Introduction
3.2 American English13:Segments and lexical stress
3.3 Beijing Chinese:Segments, tones and lexical stress
3.4 Changsha Chinese:Segments, tones and lexical stress
3.5 Cantonese Chinese:Segments and tones
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 Experiments 1 and 2:The perception of segmental contrasts by BC, CC, and CanC learners
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Experiment 1:The perception of L3 English segments
4.3 Experiment 2:the perception of/l/vs./n/and/n/vs./?/in Beijing Chinese
4.4 General summary for the two experiments
Chapter 5 Experiment 3:The perception of lexical stress contrasts by BC and CC learners
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Hypothesis for Question IV
5.3 Method
5.4 Results
5.5 Discussion
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Summary of major findings
6.3 Contributions
6.4 Limitations
6.5 Future research
参考文献
Appendix I \(in English\)
Appendix I \(in Chinese\)