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Perception and Production of Mandarin Tones by German Speakers
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ding, Hongwei Jokisch, Oliver Hoffmann, Rüdiger |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | This study investigates the possible errors related to Mand ari tone perception and production by German speakers. In a preliminary test, 23 German listeners should identify the tone s of 186 monosyllables. Results show that exposure to Mandarin Chinese can help to discriminate lexical tones as highly expected. In the main experiment, 17 German subjects were aske d to take part in a perception and production test. Stimulus of perception involves 48 monosyllables uttered by a standard pro fessional Chinese speaker, acoustic measures were conducted t o analyze the production of 72 monosyllables for each subject . Besides common mistakes found in previous literature, Germ an speakers have much smaller f0 range than Chinese native spea kers. Findings can provide implications for cross language s tudies and teaching practices. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100153.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/sp2010/papers/sp10_153.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100153.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
