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Teaching Mandarin pronunciation: the cliticoids and basic types of phonetic chunks

SYSNO ASEP	0450108
Document Type	K - Proceedings Paper (Czech conf.)
R&D Document Type	Conference Paper
Title	Teaching Mandarin pronunciation: the cliticoids and basic types of phonetic chunks
Author(s)	Třísková, Hana (OU-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	1
Source Title	The 8th annual Czech and Slovac sinological conference 2014 – proceedings. - Olomouc : Palacký University Olomouc, 2015 / Lavička Martin ; Rysová Martina - ISBN 978-80-244-4827-5 S. 1-228
Number of pages	15 s.
Publication form	Online - E
Action	The 8th annual Czech and Slovac sinological conference
Event date	07.11.2014-08.11.2014
VEvent location	Olomouc
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Event type	WRD
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	Mandarin Chinese ; pronunciation ; phonetics ; clitics ; function words ; language teaching
Subject RIV	AI - Linguistics
Institutional support	OU-W - RVO:68378009
Annotation	The paper is concerned with an important group of Chinese words, belonging to the high frequency items of the lexicon: monosyllabic function words such as prepositions, personal pronouns etc. They carry lexical tone, thus have a potential to be stressed. Yet, due to their deficiency in lexical meaning and frequent usage, they regularly behave as unstressed (and phonetically reduced) in connected speech. They receive stress (i.e. full pronunciation) only occasionally, particularly if emphasised. A new term is coined for these words: “the cliticoids”. The author provides their list and reviews the pitfalls of their pronunciation, observing that the Chinese cliticoids display similar features as so called “words with weak forms” found in English. Finally, short (2–3 syllabic) chunks of speech which contain the cliticoids are introduced. They are particularly designed for exercising the unstressed, reduced pronunciation of the cliticoids in L2 teaching. They are termed “phonetic chunks”.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2016
Electronic address	http://chinet.cz/publications/proceedings/the-8th-annual-czech-and-slovak-sinological-conference-2014-proceedings/

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