Chinese prosodic transcription (CHIPROT) for teaching purposes – a cookbook

0556254 - OÚ 2023 eng A - Abstract
Třísková, Hana
Chinese prosodic transcription (CHIPROT) for teaching purposes – a cookbook.
[International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research /6./. Online, 30.07.2021-01.08.2021]
Method of presentation: Jiné
Event organizer: George Washington University, Washington DC
URL events: https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/caslar-6-2021 
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Chinese * Mandarin * phonetics * prosody * transcription
OECD category: Linguistics
https://youtu.be/iXhWvgdsgPo

Features of connected speech such as stress, grouping, intonation, and information structure have crucial linguistic and communicative functions. Yet these features are seldom given attention in L2 teaching. When students practice Chinese utterances presented in teaching materials, they either have to get by with Chinese characters, or—at best—make do with plain Hanyu Pinyin. That is, they have no hints about the prosodic structure of the utterances. They often tend to produce them as a series of fully tonic syllables of equal prominence with incorrectly placed breaks. To help learners become more natural and fluent I have designed a prosodic transcription CHIPROT for teaching purposes. It can be used to transcribe the recordings of common colloquial utterances produced at a natural speech tempo. It reflects fundamental prosodic features of fluent speech, namely the degree of prominence of particular syllables, and grouping. It is based on Hanyu Pinyin, being rather iconic and easy to implement / use. The workshop offered a “cookbook” for CHIPROT. It demonstrated how common colloquial recorded utterances containing high-frequency words can be transcribed. The participants were advised how to use CHIPROT in their pedagogical practice while preparing teaching materials. The students learnt how to transcribe simple sentences themselves.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0330543