The Acquisition of Mandarin Consonants by English Learners
The Relationship between Perception and Production
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 5900907 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Xinchun Wang (0000-0002-5836-9367, California State University, Fresno, autor de correspondencia), Jidong Chen (0000-0002-4040-6350, California State University, Fresno) |
| Año | 2020 |
| Volumen | 5 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 20 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2020-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Editorial | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages5020020 |
| OpenAlex | W3024897058 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 3 |
| Referencias citadas | 18 |
This study investigates native English CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) learners' difficulties with Mandarin consonants at the initial stage of learning and explores the relationship between second language (L2) speech perception and production. Twenty-five native English CFL learners read the eight Mandarin consonants (j/tɕ/, q /tɕh/, x /ɕ/, zh /tʂ/, ch /tʂh/, sh /ʂ/, z /ts/, and c /tsh/) in sentences and identified the target sounds in a forced-choice identification task. Native Mandarin listeners identified the consonants produced by the learners and rated the quality of each sound they identified along a scale of 1 (poor) to 7 (good). The learners' mean percentage accuracy scores ranged from 29% to 80% for perception and 25% to 88% for production. Moderate correlations between the perception and production scores were found for two of the eight target sounds. The Mandarin retroflex, palatal, and dental fricatives and affricates, though all lack counterparts in English, pose different problems to the English CFL learners. The misperceived retroflex and palatal sounds were substituted with each other in perception but mis-produced palatal sounds were substituted with each other, not with retroflex sounds. The relationship between perception and production of L2 consonants is not straightforward. The findings are discussed in terms of current speech learning models
Audiology · First language · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Perception · Production (economics · Speech production · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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