Abstract
![CDATA[This study examined whether native English (NE) speakers perceive non-native tones of Mandarin in terms of their English intonational categories (Flat pitch, Question, Uncertainty, and Statement). The results indicated that NE listeners assimilated non-native tones to their native intonational categories, which share phonetic similarities with those of Mandarin tones. Thus, the assumption that assimilations of non-native prosodic categories (e.g., tones) to native prosodic categories - an extension from the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) - is supported.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008 |
Publisher | Causal Productions |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | International Speech Communication Association. Conference - Duration: 9 Sept 2012 → … |
Conference
Conference | International Speech Communication Association. Conference |
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Period | 9/09/12 → … |
Keywords
- intonation (phonetics)
- second language acquisition
- Mandarin dialects
- English speakers
- prosodic analysis (linguistics)
- Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM)