29.3248, Books: Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones: Zhang

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:29:43
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones: Zhang

 


Title: Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones 
Subtitle: Beyond First-Language Transfer 
Series Title: Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/32460 


Author: Hang Zhang

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004364790 Pages: 163 Price: Europe EURO 72
Paperback: ISBN:  9789004305977 Pages: 163 Price: Europe EURO 79


Abstract:

Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for
adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to
interference from learners’ native languages. In Second Language Acquisition
of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Hang Zhang offers a series of cross-linguistic
studies to argue that there are factors influencing tone acquisition that
extend beyond the transfer of structures from learners’ first languages, and
beyond characteristics extracted from Chinese. These factors include universal
phonetic and phonological constraints as well as pedagogical issues. By
examining non-native Chinese tone productions made by speakers of non-tonal
languages (English, Japanese, and Korean), this book brings together theory
and practice and uses the theoretical insights to provide concrete suggestions
for teachers and learners of Chinese.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

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

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan


Written In: English  (eng)

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