CHIPROT – Chinese prosodic transcription

0556253 - OÚ 2023 eng A - Abstract
Třísková, Hana
CHIPROT – Chinese prosodic transcription.
[International Conference on Prosodic Grammar /7./. Online, 17.04.2021-18.04.2021]
Method of presentation: Zvaná přednáška
Event organizer: Beijing Language and Culture University, Tianjin University
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Chinese * Mandarin * phonetics * prosody * transcription
OECD category: Linguistics

This paper introduces prosodic transcription of Chinese speech, designed primarilly for L2 teaching purposes. It was designed as a tool for transcribing utterances of colloquial speech style delivered in natural tempo. The features labelled by CHIPROT are: 1. degree of prominence of particular syllables (four categories: ma, mā, mā, MĀ ), 2. prosodic units of two levels: prosodic words and prosodic phrases. This transcription system was initially inspired by the system of prof. Oldřich Švarný (1910–2011). He used it to transcribe a large corpus of example sentences (pronounced by native Beijing speakers), appearing in a series of his textbooks, as well as in the four-volume dictionary of Chinese morphemes (1998-2000). CHIPROT is based on a different phonological analysis of Chinese stress (see Třísková 2019, SPG No.2). It is computer-friendly (while Švarný´s transcription was typewritten), simple, graphically iconic and intuitive. It is supposed not only to be easily “digestible” for Chinese language learners, but also usable for teachers who could actively transcribe example sentences themselves. CHIPROT has been designed and step by step improved in the course of more than 10 years, and widely discussed with both colleagues and students. It has been tested in the process of teaching – at my courses of Mandarin prosody (Charles University Prague). Tentative version of CHIPROT was introduced in my talk at CUHK, Hong Kong, June 2018. Final version appears for the first time in the textbook Hana Třísková: Speak Mandarin in a “haoting” way: prosody of colloquial Mandarin. Prague: Academia Publishing House, 2021 (in Czech).
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0330538