二语学习者汉语普通话轻声的感知与产出

The perception and production of Mandarin neutral tone on L2 learners

本文运用感知听辨和语音分析相结合的方法,通过与汉语母语者的对比,考察了欧洲汉语学习者汉语普通话轻声的感知及产出情况,探讨了音高、音长这两个语音要素在轻声感知和产出中的作用。研究结果发现,对汉语母语者来说,音高和音长都会对轻声感知产生影响,其中音高的作用大于音长;而汉语学习者则主要依靠音长来感知轻声,音高的作用不明显。在轻声产出中,音高和音长偏误都普遍存在。音高偏误既有非轻声音节的声调偏误,又有轻声音节的调型偏误,音长偏误主要表现为音长缩短幅度较小。

Based on both perceptual distinguishing and phonetic analysis,by comparing with that of Chinese native speakers,this paper investigates the perception and production of Chinese neutral tone on European Chinese learners,and further explores the effect of pitch and duration on the perception and production of neutral tone.The results show that for Chinese native speakers both pitch and duration affect the neutral tone perception,and that the effect of pitch is greater than that of duration.Chinese learners,however,are found to mainly rely on the duration to perceive the neutral tone,while the effect of the pitch is not obvious.In the production of neutral tone by Chinese learners,pitch and duration errors are common.Pitch errors include not only tone errors made in non-neutral tone syllables,but also pitch errors in neutral tone syllables.Duration errors are often made when learners produce neutral tone syllables longer than native speakers.