Research and Countermeasures on the Negative Transfer of Hunan Dialect Accent on the Pronunciation of English Vowels

Ying Xiao

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/2025.20772

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Xiao,Y. (2025). Research and Countermeasures on the Negative Transfer of Hunan Dialect Accent on the Pronunciation of English Vowels. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,84,174-178.

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Research and Countermeasures on the Negative Transfer of Hunan Dialect Accent on the Pronunciation of English Vowels

Ying Xiao *^,1,

¹ Hunan University of Chinese Medicine

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2025.20772

Abstract

English language education and proficiency play a key role in today's world, not only facilitating cross-cultural communication and understanding, but also serving as an important tool for accessing information, participating in international affairs, and enhancing personal competitiveness and career development. For students in Hunan today, the Hunan dialect hinders the correct acquisition of English accents to some extent. This paper studies the missing parts of Hunanese accents in English phonetics, concludes that the missing parts in vowels bring about negative transfer, and provides some guidance on dealing with this deficiency. This paper uses the corpus of 10 participants, which contains 17 words with different vowel sounds, and imports it into Praat for analysis. It can be concluded that the Hunan dialect has a negative transfer effect on English pronunciation in terms of a partial lack of phonetic features.

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second language acquisition, Hunan dialect, negative transfer, English vowels, accent

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Volume title: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Psychology and Humanity Studies

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ISBN：978-1-83558-937-3(Print) / 978-1-83558-938-0(Online)

Conference date: 14 February 2025

Editor：Kurt Buhring

Series: Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media

Volume number: Vol.84

ISSN：2753-7048(Print) / 2753-7056(Online)

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