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<p>This study aims to document the pronunciation status and methods of Mandarin by intermediate-level learners in order to meet the practical requirements of high-precision phonetic recognition for these learners. The research investigates the formant resonance patterns and acoustic vowel charts of Mandarin pronunciation by intermediate-level learners, calculating the Euclidean distance and vowel duration parameters in both standard and non-standard Mandarin for each vowel. The trajectory and pronunciation morphology of the learners acquiring Mandarin monophthongs were thus derived. Notably, it was discovered that the Euclidean distance between the basic vowels of intermediate-level learners and native Mandarin speakers generally decreases as proficiency in Mandarin increases. Additionally, it was observed that, during the process of Mandarin acquisition by learners, there were both "similar vowels" and "unfamiliar vowels" which presented varying degrees of acquisition ease, and certain phenomena that neither the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) nor the Speech Learning Model (SLM) could predict.</p>
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This study aims to document the pronunciation status and methods of Mandarin by intermediate-level learners in order to meet the practical requirements of high-precision phonetic recognition for these learners. The research investigates the formant resonance patterns and acoustic vowel charts of Mandarin pronunciation by intermediate-level learners, calculating the Euclidean distance and vowel duration parameters in both standard and non-standard Mandarin for each vowel. The trajectory and pronunciation morphology of the learners acquiring Mandarin monophthongs were thus derived. Notably, it was discovered that the Euclidean distance between the basic vowels of intermediate-level learners and native Mandarin speakers generally decreases as proficiency in Mandarin increases. Additionally, it was observed that, during the process of Mandarin acquisition by learners, there were both "similar vowels" and "unfamiliar vowels" which presented varying degrees of acquisition ease, and certain phenomena that neither the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) nor the Speech Learning Model (SLM) could predict.

Analysis of Mandarin Monophthong Production by Intermediate-Level Learners

Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics

Department of Chinese Language and Literature

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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This study aims to document the pronunciation status and methods of Mandarin by intermediate-level learners in order to meet the practical requirements of...

Analysis of Mandarin Monophthong Production by Intermediate-Level Learners

Published Online: Feb 15, 2024

Page range: -

Received: Dec 15, 2023

Accepted: Jan 02, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2024-0009

Keywords
Intermediate level learners, Pronunciation quality;Mandarin, Acoustic features;Computer assisted language learning system

© 2024 Gulnur Arkin et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Analysis of Mandarin Monophthong Production by Intermediate-Level Learners

Published Online: Feb 15, 2024

Page range: -

Received: Dec 15, 2023

Accepted: Jan 02, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2024-0009

KeywordsIntermediate level learners, Pronunciation quality;Mandarin, Acoustic features;Computer assisted language learning system

© 2024 Gulnur Arkin et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Intermediate level learners, Pronunciation quality;Mandarin, Acoustic features;Computer assisted language learning system