外国人汉语普通话声调感知

Foreigners’ Perception of Mandarin Tones: A Review

汉语是声调语言,本文重点介绍外国人感知汉语普通话声调的结果。范畴化感知在汉语母语者中比较常见,但外语听者表现出了范畴化感知和连续性感知的不同结果。他们感知汉语普通话声调的细化结果也各有不同,其中外语听者的母语背景、汉语水平、是否接受过音乐训练和具体的实验条件和环境都会对感知结果产生影响。了解外语母语者感知声调的不同表征和原因对帮助提高外语母语者的汉语普通话声调知觉的对外汉语教学有较大的现实意义。

Chinese is a tonal language. The present review aims to present information on how foreign lis-teners perceive Mandarin tones. Categorical perception is common among native Chinese listen-ers while both categorical perception and consecutive perception can be investigated among for-eign listeners. On account of foreigners’ background differences, they exhibit various types of representations. The reason why foreigners perceive Mandarin tones differently vary in terms of their native language, Mandarin level, the degree of music capabilities and the specific experiment surroundings. Understanding of foreigners’ distinctive results of representation and corresponding reasons is significant to the teaching of Madarin.