Jian, Hua-Li (2015) Prosodic challenges faced by English speakers reading Mandarin. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 62 (1). pp. 35-62. ISSN 1216-8076
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Abstract
This study compares the prosodic characteristics of L2-Mandarin as spoken by L1-English speakers using L1-Mandarin utterances. The acoustic correlates examined include individual tonal realizations, interactions of tones in sequence, durational features and intensity envelopes. L2-Mandarin users realize the contour tones RISE and FALL with both rising and falling pitch, and produce the second tone of disyllabic words with more varied pitch. L2-users employ larger vowel durations, syllable durations and larger variation over vowel intervals in sequential pairs than L1-Mandarin users. Both user groups show similar intensity envelopes. Implications of this study include tailoring language training programs that counterbalance L1 influences.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| Depositing User: | László Sallai-Tóth |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2016 08:03 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2017 23:15 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/37276 |
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