| Presentation | 2013-01-30 A Study on Perceptual Training of Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3 by Japanese Learners Jinsong ZHANG, Yue SUN, Ting Zou, Xiaoyun WANG, Masafumi NISHIDA, Seiichi YAMAMOTO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In the process of Mandarin learning, lexical tones have presented great difficulty to Japanese learners. Among the four basic tone categories, Tone 2 and Tone 3 show to be the most problematic. In order to develop a perceptual training paradigm that can help them to develop perceptual ability to distinguish the tones, we have carried out a series of three studies to answer the following questions : how difficult do Japanese learners produce the tones in connected speech? How different are Japanese tone perception patterns from those of native Chinese speakers? Which acoustic cue is most influential for perceptual identification of the two confusing tones? What kind of perceptual training procedure is effective? The first study checked tones in disyllable words produced by Japanese learners, the second one investigated perception patterns of the two tones by Japanese and Chinese people, and the third tested a hybrid perceptual training paradigm lasting 6 days : an adaptive training in the first two days and a high-variability training in the following four days. Results of these studies not only improved our knowing about tone production and perception patterns with respect to Japanese and Chinese speakers, but also showed the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid perceptual training paradigm which achieved a significant improvement of tone distinguishing ability by Japanese learners. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3 / Category Perception / Adaptive Perceptual Training / High-variability Perceptual Training |
| Paper # | SP2012-99 |
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| Conference Date | 2013/1/23(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | A Study on Perceptual Training of Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3 by Japanese Learners |
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| Keyword(1) | Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3 |
| Keyword(2) | Category Perception |
| Keyword(3) | Adaptive Perceptual Training |
| Keyword(4) | High-variability Perceptual Training |
| 1st Author's Name | Jinsong ZHANG |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Beijing Language and Culture University:NICT:Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yue SUN |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Beijing Language and Culture University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Ting Zou |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | NICT:Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University |
| 4th Author's Name | Xiaoyun WANG |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University |
| 5th Author's Name | Masafumi NISHIDA |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University |
| 6th Author's Name | Seiichi YAMAMOTO |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University |
| Date | 2013-01-30 |
| Paper # | SP2012-99 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | 422 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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