By Chunsheng Yang
This publication examines the purchase of L2 Mandarin prosody, a much less explored region in SLA. whereas acknowledging that tone acquisition is without doubt one of the most vital features in buying L2 Mandarin phonology, the ebook demonstrates that word- and utterance-level prosody is both very important. particularly, this ebook discusses the purchase of Mandarin lexical tones and utterance-level prosody, the interplay of tones and intonation, the purchase of Tone three sandhis, the temporal alterations among L1 and L2 Mandarin discourse, and the connection among intelligibility, comprehensibility and international accessory belief in L2 chinese language. additionally, an entire bankruptcy is completely dedicated to the pedagogy of L2 Mandarin prosody. stories during this e-book extra our figuring out of speech prosody in L1 and L2 and show off the attention-grabbing interplay of phonetics, phonology, and pedagogy in SLA. This ebook should be of significant curiosity to SLA researchers and graduate scholars, utilized linguists, chinese language linguists, and chinese language practitioners.
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The stressed syllables are often accompanied with major pitch movements in English. Thus, the word-level metrically strong syllables are often the docking sites that the phrasal-level pitch accents are aligned with at the post-lexical level (see H. Zhang, 2013). In the mainstream American English ToBI 1 (Tone and Break indices) transcription system (Beckman, Hirschberg, & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2005), English prosody can be described with three tone2 events: pitch accent, phrase accent, and boundary tone.
The read passage was adapted from a Chinese textbook for L2 the intermediate learners to guarantee that they knew all the characters (see Appendix at the end of the chapter). The spontaneous speech was elicited by presenting subjects with two pictures related to the story of The North Wind and The Sun. Subjects were instructed to tell the story according to the pictures. 2 Participants Ten intermediate-level (2nd-year and 3rd-year learners) and ten advanced-level (4th-year or above learners) American L2 learners were recruited to participate in this study.
It should be pointed out that this study focuses on the surfaced tone error patterns, instead of on the underlying tones. Therefore, the Tone 4 error in this study referred to the production of Tone 4 to replace other underlying tones in L2 speech, instead of Tone 4 being produced as other tones. Chapter 3. L2 acquisition of Mandarin tones tone error in the reading passage by both learner groups. As a matter of fact, all other tones could be produced as a Tone 4. Besides the Tone 4 errors, T3’s were frequently produced as Tone 2 and the other way around, implying confusion between these two tones.