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Mo Chen; Shuai Li; Naoko Taguchi; Yunhuai Zhang; Hengchen Guo; Chunyin Li – Language Learning, 2025
This cross-sectional study examines the sociopragmatic use of pitch and fluency features in requests among second language (L2) Chinese learners at two proficiency levels alongside native Chinese speakers. Twenty-eight L2 learners completed a 40-item oral discourse task with two types of request-making situations: (a) a high-imposition request to…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Pragmatics, Competence, Language Proficiency