TY - JOUR
T1 - Tone production of Mandarin disyllabic words by Korean learners
AU - Tu, Jung Yueh
AU - Hsiung, Yuwen
AU - Cha, Jih Ho
AU - Wu, Min Da
AU - Sung, Yao Ting
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is partially supported by the “Aim for the Top University Project” and “Center of Learning Technology for Chinese” of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, R.O.C. and the “International Research-Intensive Center of Excellence Program” of NTNU and Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. under Grant no. NSC 103-2911-I-003-301, as well as International Chinese Education Center, School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This study investigated the production of Mandarin disyllabic tones by Korean speakers. We focused on disyllabic tones since it is disyllabic words that dominate the vocabulary in modern Mandarin. In particular, we examined the tonal production in Mandarin by Korean speakers, which is somewhat understudied in the previous literature. In our study, there were 25 Korean learners of Mandarin, who were requested to produce 80 Mandarin disyllabic words with all tonal combinations (except for the neutral tone). The overall results showed a level of difficulty: Tone 2 = Tone 3 > Tone 1 = Tone 4. Most errors in the first syllable were found for Tone 2 and Tone 3 when followed by Tone 1 or Tone 4 (both start with a high pitch). In the second syllable, error patterns among those tones were not significantly different. Other errors for specific tones were also analyzed. The findings are discussed from the perspectives of phonetic representations of lexical tones as well as effects of native phonology in the first language.
AB - This study investigated the production of Mandarin disyllabic tones by Korean speakers. We focused on disyllabic tones since it is disyllabic words that dominate the vocabulary in modern Mandarin. In particular, we examined the tonal production in Mandarin by Korean speakers, which is somewhat understudied in the previous literature. In our study, there were 25 Korean learners of Mandarin, who were requested to produce 80 Mandarin disyllabic words with all tonal combinations (except for the neutral tone). The overall results showed a level of difficulty: Tone 2 = Tone 3 > Tone 1 = Tone 4. Most errors in the first syllable were found for Tone 2 and Tone 3 when followed by Tone 1 or Tone 4 (both start with a high pitch). In the second syllable, error patterns among those tones were not significantly different. Other errors for specific tones were also analyzed. The findings are discussed from the perspectives of phonetic representations of lexical tones as well as effects of native phonology in the first language.
KW - Disyllabic words
KW - Korean CSL/CFL learners
KW - Mandarin tones
KW - Tonal production
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U2 - 10.21437/speechprosody.2016-77
DO - 10.21437/speechprosody.2016-77
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84982957503
SN - 2333-2042
VL - 2016-January
SP - 375
EP - 379
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
T2 - 8th Speech Prosody 2016
Y2 - 31 May 2016 through 3 June 2016
ER -