The final tunes (the direction of the final F0 contours) of the sentences were analysed. Ten native Australian English speakers as a control group and 20 Southern Vietnamese speakers of English (10 beginners and 10 advanced speakers) were recorded. A data set of 25 sentences that included 5 statements and 20 information-seeking questions were constructed. The goal of the study is three-fold: (1) analysing the final tunes and the prosodic structure observed in information-seeking questions, namely Yes-No question, Or-question, Tag-question and Wh-question, (2) evaluating which characteristics of the L2 English intonation can be clearly derived from the observation of the data, and (3) whether the L2 English intonation patterns are transferred from Vietnamese. This paper examines the intonation of English statements and questions produced by Vietnamese speakers at two differing levels of proficiency.
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