28.5195, Books: Production and perception of tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin: Zou

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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:00:44
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Production and perception of tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin: Zou

 


Title: Production and perception of tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/production-and-perception-of-tones-by-dutch-learners-of-mandarin 


Author: Ting Zou

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932557 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

The function of pitch movements varies across languages. Tone languages, such
as Mandarin Chinese, use pitch configurations to differentiate between word
forms. For non-tone languages (such as Dutch and English), pitch information
is mainly used at the post-lexical level, e.g., to signal sentential
prominence or delimit prosodic constituents. Therefore, learning to use
lexical tones is always difficult for non-tone second language learners of
Mandarin who are not familiar with using pitch information in a lexically
contrastive way.

This thesis investigates various aspects of production and perception of tones
by beginning and advanced Dutch learners of Mandarin. Through a series of four
experiments, this thesis examines the developmental path of Dutch learners of
Mandarin at the university level in their acquisition of fine-grained tonal
coarticulation patterns, distribution of attention between segments and tones,
phonological processing of tones and using tonal information in spoken word
recognition. The mechanisms underlying the learners’ tone acquisition are
discussed with reference to current theories and models of second language
acquisition and spoken word recognition.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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