Perception of L2 Mandarin tones by L1Swedish learners at three proficiency levels

Nagano-Madsen, Yasuko; Wan, Xinzheng

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“…In the previous studies, the characteristics of Swedish learners' speech read out in Japanese at the beginner level were reported in [5]. Moreover, we have been examining how SwL2 acquire Japanese and/or Chinese ( [3], [4], [5], and [6]) in terms of production and perception. These studies have focused on phonetic and prosodic dimensions, based on acoustic experiments.…”

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Respiratory Control, Pauses, and Tonal Control in L1’s and L2’s Text Reading – A Pilot Study on Swedish and Japanese –

Isei-Jaakkola¹,

Nagano-Madsen²,

Ochi³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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This paper reports the results of a pilot study, which examines the respiratory control exerted by chest and abdominal-muscles during the reading of a long text in the mother tongue (L1) and a targeted foreign language that is being learned (L2), with reference to syntax and prosody in Japanese and Swedish. Three datasets of read speech were obtained from Swedish speakers (SwL1), Swedish learners of Japanese (SwL2), and Japanese speakers (JL1). The results showed that the subjects used respiratory control differently while reading L1 texts and L2 texts, respectively. Both SwL1 and JL1 used chest and abdominal-muscles almost simultaneously, and the peaks of their muscular movements co-occurred at the onset of major syntactic units such as sentences and clauses. SwL2 used more chest muscles than abdominal-muscles, with muscular movements being more frequent, irregular, and small. There was no significant difference between JL1 and Swedish L1 and L2 in terms of the tonal control (pitch range). Some pitch peaks and pauses that appeared at the major syntactic boundaries coincided with the peaks of the muscular movements, but other pitch peaks and pauses did not. These results led to the hypothesis that the acquisition of intonation precedes that of respiratory control in L2 learning.

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Respiratory Control, Pauses, and Tonal Control in L1’s and L2’s Text Reading – A Pilot Study on Swedish and Japanese –

Isei-Jaakkola¹,

Nagano-Madsen²,

Ochi³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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“…After the monosyllabic words, the subjects listened to the 16 disyllabic words, each of which was also read twice. The present paper uses part of the experiment reported earlier in [7].…”

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Perception and production of L2 Mandarin tones by Swedish learners

Nagano-Madsen

Wan

2017

2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

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Abstract-This study presents the results of perception and production of L2 Mandarin tones in mono-and di-syllabic words by Swedish learners at the beginner level. Although studies of perception and production on Mandarin tones are many, those by speakers of lexical-pitch accent language such as Swedish are still very limited. The result reveals both discrepancy and agreement between perception and production. Swedish learners perform best in discriminating a level tone (T1) from contour tones (T2, T3, T4) both in perception and production. Discrepancy between perception and production was noted for T3. In perception, the identification of T3 was second best after the level tone (T1), but the production of T3 was found to be difficult.

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Perception of L2 Mandarin tones by L1Swedish learners at three proficiency levels

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Respiratory Control, Pauses, and Tonal Control in L1’s and L2’s Text Reading – A Pilot Study on Swedish and Japanese –

Respiratory Control, Pauses, and Tonal Control in L1’s and L2’s Text Reading – A Pilot Study on Swedish and Japanese –

Perception and production of L2 Mandarin tones by Swedish learners

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