This paper analyzes some frequently occurring problems concerning pronunciation of English learners in China. Factors leading to these problems are interference of Chinese, learners’ age, attitude, and their insufficient knowledge of phonology and phonetics systems of the English language, etc.

In this paper we review the current state of research on the issue of discourse structure (DS)/information structure (IS) interface. This field has received a lot of attention from discourse semanticists and pragmatists, and has made substantial progress in recent years. In this paper we summarize the relevant studies. In addition, we look at the issue of DS/ISinteraction at a different level—t...

In the first two years of life, most children develop the phonetic scaffolding that is needed to acquire a first language. They learn to perceptually parse the sound patterns of the words and longer utterances that are being said in their hearing, and they learn to respond to phatic utterances that are said to them, practicing a perception-production feedback loop until their vocalizations have...