Az izolált mandarin kínai lexikai tónusok akusztikai elemzése kínaiul tanuló magyar anyanyelvűek ejtésében

Juhász, Kornélia (2025) Az izolált mandarin kínai lexikai tónusok akusztikai elemzése kínaiul tanuló magyar anyanyelvűek ejtésében. BESZÉDTUDOMÁNY / SPEECH SCIENCE, 5 (2). pp. 6-43. ISSN 2732-3773

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Abstract

The experiment aims to provide an acoustic phonetic investigation into how Hungarian learners of Mandarin produce isolated Chinese lexical tones. In Mandarin Chinese (MC), four lexical tones are contrasted: high level Tone 1 (T1), rising Tone 2 (T2), low falling-rising Tone 3 (T3), and falling Tone 4 (T4). These four tones do not exclusively differ by their F0 curve, but their duration also serves as an acoustic cue for differentiation. The primary focus of the study is to acoustically compare L2 learners and MC natives’ production by two acoustic characteristics: the duration, as well as the shape of the f0 curves. The speech of two L2 learner groups (beginners, advanced learners) was compared to a native MC control group (8 speakers per group, all women). Speakers were asked to read CV-structured meaningful words (ma syllables), characterized by the four lexical tones. The analysis included the comparison of the duration of the syllable, as well as contrasting the individual tonal realizations’ f0 contours among the three speaker groups. The results show that both L2 learner groups produced Mandarin lexical tones with the same temporal characteristics as native speakers, both for absolute and relative durations. Concerning the shape and register of the f0 curves, both L2 learner groups produced the isolated tonal patterns similarly to native MC speakers, i.e., the production of the four lexical tones did not pose problems for Hungarian learners. Some minor differences were observed primarily in the case of beginners, whose production differed more from the native patterns compared to advanced learners: the concavity and the f0 range of the T2, T3, and T4 were distinct compared to the MC native realizations. The significance of the study is that, to the author’s knowledge, it is the first analysis that provides statistically validated results on the acoustic comparison of isolated lexical tone production in the speech of Hungarian learners of MC.

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