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

This book examines the acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody, a less explored area in SLA. While acknowledging that tone acquisition is one of the most important aspects in acquiring L2 Mandarin phonology, the book demonstrates that phrase- and utterance-level prosody is equally important. Specifically...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yang, Chunsheng (Linguist) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Colección:Bilingual processing and acquisition ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Prosody of Mandarin Chinese and English
  • L2 acquisition of Mandarin tones
  • Acquisition of utterance-level prosody in L2 Mandarin Chinese
  • Perception of Mandarin tones and intonation by American L2 learners
  • Acquisition of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi: interaction of phonology, phonetics, and pedagogy
  • Temporal cues of discourse boundaries in L1/L2 Mandarin speech
  • Intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Mandarin Chinese
  • From research to practice: training of L2 Mandarin prosody
  • Conclusion.