Essays about: "Mandarin Chinese"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 20 essays containing the words Mandarin Chinese.

1. 6. Mandarin lexical tone perception by native speakers of Greek

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Dimitrios Apostolou; [2022]
   Keywords : Chinese; Mandarin; Greek; lexical tone; perception study; discrimination task; AXB; 关键词：汉语普通话声调、希腊语、感知能力、声调辨识、AXB 辨识测试;

   Abstract : This study examines the perception of Mandarin lexical tones by native speakers of Greek who are naïve to Mandarin. Being able to discriminate between Mandarin lexical tones is essential for effective and accurate communication in the language. READ MORE

3. 7. Mandarin L1 speakers’ difficulty with phonetic perception in English as an L2

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Ida Gisslén; [2021]
   Keywords : Speech Perception; Phonemes; Phonetic Perception; HVPT; ORDT;

   Abstract : The study focuses on three research questions. The first question addresses whether it is possible to improve phonetic perception in English as an L2 for Chinese primary school children speaking Mandarin as an L1, through the didactic methods High Variability Phonetic Training and Onset Rhyme Detection Test. READ MORE

4. 8. Attaching Meaning to Chinese Characters : A retrieval practice study of learners with no knowledge of Chinese

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Jacob Tønnesen; [2019]
   Keywords : Mandarin Chinese; second language learning; thetesting effect; mandarin kinesiska; andraspråksinlärning; the testing effect;

   Abstract : En ökad efterfrågan på talare av mandarin kinesiska (hädanefterkinesiska) i väst har lett till ett ökat behov av högkvalitetsundervisning i kinesiska. I den här undersökningen studerade 24 svenska modersmålstalare utan tidigare kinesisk språkerfarenhet 60 svenska ord i kombination med deras kinesiska motsvarighet. READ MORE

5. 9. Naïve listeners’ perceptual learning of Chinese tones: The influence of L1 background in prosody and the effect of an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Lili Wen; [2019]
   Keywords : Tone perception; Tone acquisition; Mandarin 声调感知; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The present perceptual learning study was conducted in an attempt to investigate to which extent naïve listeners’ L1 prosodic background affected their learning performance of a lexical tone language and whether an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm curtailed the online-learning process of lexical tones. Thirty-three Mandarin-naïve Swedish-native listeners (NS listeners) and 33 Mandarin-naïve English-native listeners (NE listeners) participated in a behaviour experiment designed to answer the question of whether native listeners of a pitch accent language (NS listeners) had an advantage over native listeners of a non-tonal non-pitch-accent language (NE listeners) in learning to perceive tones in Mandarin Chinese (MC). READ MORE

6. 10. Event construal in the auditory and visual modalities: A crosslinguistic study of placement events in Mandarin Chinese and German

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Vera Trojansky; [2018]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigates whether event construal of placement events varies between Mandarin Chinese and German speakers by comparing how native speakers of the respective languages speak and gesture about placement events. It has been argued that there are universal constraints on how languages encode placement events. READ MORE