Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences
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Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences


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Volume 9, Issue 1


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February 15, 2024


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Article

Analysis of Mandarin Monophthong Production by Intermediate-Level Learners

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Authors

Gulnur Arkin Affiliation:
Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, Institute of Public Administration, Urumqi, China
and Shengyi Wu Affiliation:
Shaoxing University, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Shaoxing, China


Abstract

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.


Keywords

Intermediate level learners, Pronunciation quality, Mandarin, Acoustic features, Computer assisted language learning system, 068T50


Citation

Arkin, G. & Wu, S. (2024). Analysis of mandarin monophthong production by intermediate-level learners. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2024-0009

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