The acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody : from experimental studies to pedagogical practice / Chunsheng Yang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Chunsheng (Linguist)

Series:

Bilingual processing and acquisition ; vol. 1.

Bilingual processing and acquisition, 2352-0531 ; vol. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mandarin dialects--Phonology.

Mandarin dialects.

Mandarin dialects--Intonation.

Chinese language--Study and teaching--English speakers.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Dialects.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

xviii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Acquisition of second language Mandarin prosody

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Contents:

1 Acknowledgements p. xi

2 List of Figures p. xiii

3 List of Tables p. xvii

4 Chapter 1. Introduction p. 1

5 Chapter 2. Prosody of Mandarin Chinese and English p. 11

6 Chapter 3. L2 acquisition of Mandarin tones p. 25

7 Chapter 4. Acquisition of utterance-level prosody in L2 Mandarin Chinese p. 45

8 Chapter 5. Perception of Mandarin tones and intonation by American L2 learners p. 63

9 Chapter 6. Acquisition of Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi p. 91

10 Chapter 7. Temporal cues of discourse boundaries in L1/L2 Mandarin speech p. 113

11 Chapter 8. Intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Mandarin Chinese p. 127

12 Chapter 9. From research to practice p. 141

13 Chapter 10. Conclusion p. 153

14 References p. 159

15 Index p. 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027243713

9027243719

OCLC:

927376127