Prosodic Interference in Chinese Speech

Ирина Галыня

Минский государственный лингвистический университет (Miński Państwowy Uniwersytet Lingwistyczny)

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing language interference on the phonological level. The author highlights the reasons, accounting for the breach of the prosodic norms of Chinese speech, refers to interlinguistic, intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors of language interference. The article under consideration includes analysis of Chinese and Russian prosodic systems, thus, revealing the principal functional differences between the systems and prosodic phenomena undergoing interference in the Chinese speech of Russian speaking students.

Keywords:

interference, prosodic systems, prosodic interference