Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language

0476275 - OÚ 2018 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Třísková, Hana
Acquiring and teaching Chinese pronunciation.
Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language. Cham: Springer, 2017 - (Kecskes, I.), s. 3-30. ISBN 978-3-319-54026-9
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Keywords : Standard Chinese * Mandarin * phonetics and phonology * learning pronunciation * teaching pronunciation * textbooks and methodology
OECD category: Specific languages

The author explores the specifics of learning / teaching Standard Chinese (SC) pronunciation, its goals and methods, within the broader context of L2 pronunciation learning / teaching. The ways in which research findings in Chinese phonetics and phonology might facilitate the acquisition of SC pronunciation by adult learners are investigated. An overview is provided of the textbooks and linguistic literature dealing with SC pronunciation. The usefulness of metalinguistic instruction is discussed. The following topics, among others, are addressed: the SC syllable structure, the third tone, acoustic correlates of stress, and the importance of unstressed function words.
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