A Study on the Korean’s Perception of Chinese Initial Consonant - Related with Consonants Categorization

Hee, Lee Sun

doi:10.18212/cccs.2018..42.003

thejournalofchineseculturalstudies

2018

DOI: 10.18212/cccs.2018..42.003

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A Study on the Korean’s Perception of Chinese Initial Consonant - Related with Consonants Categorization

Lee Sun Hee¹

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Perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones in Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese

Ko¹,

Choi²

2020

Phonetics Speech Sci.

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Non-tonal language speakers may have difficulty learning second language lexical tones. In the present study, we explored this issue with Korean-speaking learners of Mandarin Chinese (i.e., non-tonal first language speakers) by examining their perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones. In the perception experiment, the Korean learners were asked to listen to the tone of each stimulus and assign it to one of four Mandarin lexical tones using the response keys; in the production experiment, the learners provided speech production data for the lexical tones and then their productions were identified by native listeners of Mandarin Chinese. Our results showed that the Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese had difficulty in perceptually distinguishing Tone 2 and Tone 3, with the most frequent production error being the mispronunciation of Tone 3 as Tone 2. We also investigated whether unfamiliar non-native phonemes (i.e., Chinese phonemes) that do not exist in the native language phonemic inventory (i.e., Korean) may hinder the processing of the non-native lexical tones. We found no evidence for such effects, neither for the perception nor for the production of the tones.

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Perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones in Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese

Ko¹,

Choi²

2020

Phonetics Speech Sci.

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A Study on the Korean’s Perception of Chinese Initial Consonant - Related with Consonants Categorization

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Perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones in Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese

Perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones in Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese

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