LINGUIST List 29.3248
Wed Aug 22 2018
Books: Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones: Zhang
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Date: 13-Aug-2018
From: Maarten Frieswijk <frieswijk
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Subject: Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones: Zhang
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones
Subtitle: Beyond First-Language Transfer
Series Title: Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication
Published: 2018
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL:
https://brill.com/abstract/title/32460 Author: Hang Zhang
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004364790 Pages: 163 Price: Europe EURO 72
Paperback: ISBN: 9789004305977 Pages: 163 Price: Europe EURO 79
Abstract:
Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to interference from learners’ native languages. In Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Hang Zhang offers a series of cross-linguistic studies to argue that there are factors influencing tone acquisition that extend beyond the transfer of structures from learners’ first languages, and beyond characteristics extracted from Chinese. These factors include universal phonetic and phonological constraints as well as pedagogical issues. By examining non-native Chinese tone productions made by speakers of non-tonal languages (English, Japanese, and Korean), this book brings together theory and practice and uses the theoretical insights to provide concrete suggestions for teachers and learners of Chinese.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Phonetics
Phonology
Subject Language(s):
Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan
Written In: English (eng)
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