The Analysis Study On Respiration Of Korean English Learner In Reading

Respiration is an important physiology fundamental precondition of human language production.Respiration provides energy for human being’s speech activity and speech also influences the form of respiration.Breathing during speech brought syntactic and semantic into the surface speech prosody,so the changing of respiration also inflects the changing of prosody structure.The thesis uses the acoustic and physiology experiment to investigate Yanbian Korean English learners’ respiratory feature.Muscle computer electrometer and respiratory sensing belt are used to record respiratory signals and acoustic signals of 4 Yanbian Korean participants and 1 English native speaker.LabChart 7 is used to transfer respiratory signals and acoustic signals.The respiratory parameter extraction program which wrote by major teacher automatically and semi-automatically extracts the respiratory parameter.Praat is used to annotate acoustic signals into textgrid form,using SPSS to analyze respiratory parameter.The thesis uses the quantitative measures to investigate the respiratory feature of Yanbian Korean English learner(YKL)in reading different complexity passages.According to feature of respiratory parameter,the thesis investigates the corresponding relation between respiration and prosody.The thesis compares Yanbian Korean English learner(YKL)with English native speaker(NS)to find the similarities and differences in reading task.As the results show that breathing unit is an important factor for YKL to distinguish three types of reading.With the complexity of three types of reading becoming,the proportion of breathing unit becomes small during inspiration,but during expiration the proportion of breathing unit becomes big.Respiratory rest duration and amplitude are not in correlation relation.From the view of corresponding relation between respiration and prosody,finding that breathing group corresponds with utterance and intonation phrase.Breathing section is flexible.Breathing unit corresponds with prosodic phrase.Comparing Yanbian Korean English learner(YKL)with English native speaker(NS)in reading different complexity passages,the thesis finds that during expiration,both of them show that with the level of respiratory units becoming higher,the parameter of respiratory units is becoming bigger;with the level of respiratory units becoming lower,the parameter of respiratory units is becoming smaller.Native English speaker uses the duration of respiratory units to distinguish three types of reading.And the proportion of respiratory units becomes bigger.With the complexity of passage becoming,as for NS,there is a tight correspondence between respiration and prosody.But for YKL,duration of inspiration couldn’t for them to distinguish different complexity passages.YKL use little inspiration volume to reading long sentences.As for YKL,with the complexity of passage becoming,the correspondence between respiration and prosody becomes vague.YKL phrases verb phrases and conjunction structure in a wrong way.English is the typical stress-timed language,distinguishing meaning by stress.Yanbian Korean is the syllable-timed language.There is obvious differences rhyme of two kinds of languages.Different rhyme of two languages is the main reason for YKL and NS phrasing prosody.