汉语作为第二语言研究CASLAR
(Chinese as a Second Language Research)
主编: Istvan Kecskes 共同主编:彭利贞
ISSN(印刷版)2193-2263 ISBN(在线版)2193-2271
De Gruyter Mouton 语言:英语，汉语
出版形式:期刊
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| 标题： | The gap between the perception and production of tones by American learners of Mandarin |
| 副标题： | An intralingual perspective |
| 作者： | Bei Yang |
| 作者地址： | byang25@wisc.ed |
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Linguists have predominantly maintained that perception precedes production (Dinnsen 1983), an assertion also accepted by those studying second language acquisition (Flege 1995). However, an observation of acquisition of tones in Chinese as a second language suggests that American learners make different tonal mistakes in perception and production. This study explores tonal perception and production referring to the sound system of Mandarin, since a tone has a close relationship with an initial that is an onset and a final that is a rhyme within a syllable in Mandarin. The research instrument has 84 monosyllables that are representative according to the relationship among initials, finals and tones. Twenty-five American learners of Chinese in second-semester Chinese class and 11 learners of Chinese in fourth-semester Chinese class participated in this study. A two-way mixed ANOVA is the main statistical method used to analyze the acquisition data. The results reveal that tonal production is better than tonal perception. The error distribution of perception is influenced not only by tonal features, but also by initial features and final structures. For production, however, initial and final features do not influence tones. Therefore, the paper argues that tones are perceived at the phonological level and produced at the phonetic level and it takes L2 learners longer time to acquire phonological features of tones.
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| 发表时间： | 2012年06月10日 |
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