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Listening Acquisition: Chinese Tones from Perception to Practice by Elsa Chang

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Listening Acquisition:. Chinese Tones from Perception to Practice by Elsa Chang. Do you speak any tonal languages?. Vietnamese (Northern). Chinese Dialects. Standard Chinese: Mandarin. O. O. O. Standard Chinese: Mandarin. Mandarin is a tonal language. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Listening Acquisition:

Chinese Tones from Perception to Practice by Elsa Chang

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Do you speak any

tonal languages?

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Vietnamese (Northern)

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Chinese Dialects

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Standard Chinese: Mandarin

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O

OO

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Standard Chinese: Mandarin

Mandarin is a tonal language.

A syllable with different tones

represents different words with different

meanings.

Standard Chinese has four pitched

tones and one neutral tone.

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Learning to read Mandarin

Nǐhǎo.

Xìexie.

Wǒ zài kàn shū.

Wǒ zài kǎn shù.

你好。谢谢。

I am reading a book. 看书

I am cutting trees. 砍树

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Tone Diagram1-5: one’s natural comfortable voice range

high

mid-high

mid

mid-low

low

(5-5)

mā(3-5)

má(2-1-4)

mǎ (5-1)

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Māmā mà mǎ.

Mǎ mà māmā.

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Your Turn!

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The 1st Tone (“Singing” tone)

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The 2nd Tone (“Climbing” Tone)

máSo?

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The 3rd Tone (“Growling” Tone)

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The 4th Tone (“Dropping” Tone)

No!

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The Revised Tone Chart

1st: singing tone (mā)

2nd: climbing tone (só)

3rd: growling tone (mǎ)

4th: dropping tone (nò)

5th: short and light (ma)

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Can you hear the difference?

mā má mǎ mà

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Which Tone did you hear?

ba – ba ma – ma de – de le – le

ji – ji xi – xi zi – zi chi – chi

DroppingClimbingSinging Growling

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Can You Say It?

mā má mǎ màSinging Climbing DroppingGrowling

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To Kiss or To Ask?

wěn wèn

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To Buy or To Sell?

mǎi mài

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Glasses or Eyes?

Yǎng Jìng Yǎng Jīng

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Cutting Trees or Reading?

Kǎn shù Kàn shū

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shīshì – accident shíshì – current events sījī – chauffeur sìjì – four seasons zìxí – self study zǐxì – careful xǐshì – happy event xīshì – to dilute shìjì – century shíjì – practical

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Who is he?

YáoMíng

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Let’s Try

Mā Má Mǎ MàMā Mǎ Má MàMá Mǎ Mà Mā Mǎ Má Mā Mǎ

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Change of Tones (1)

Two 3rd tones

Nǐhǎo mā? → Ní hǎo ma?

Wǒ hěn hǎo. → Wǒ hén hǎo.

Wó hén hǎo.

(3-2-3)

(2-2-3)

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Change of Tones (2)

The number “1” (the character “一” ):

1, 11, 21 →

一双 → yìshuāng (4-1)

一瓶 → yìpíng (4-2)

一种 → yìzhǒng (4-3)

一罐 → yíguàn (2-4)

一个 → yíge (2-0)

1st tone

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Change of Tones (3)

The character “ 不”

不吃 : bùchī

不行 : bùxíng

不冷 : bùlěng

不热 : bùrè → búrè

(4-1)

(4-2)

(4-3)

(4-4) (2-4)

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Tones and Intonation

Chinese tones = English intonation?

OK? OK.

Nǐ yào chá háishi kāfēi?

Nǐ yào chá háishi kāféi?

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Expression: Stress & Sentence Tunes

她很好看。 她很好看。 (required in grammar)

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

- 很 said with greater force.

- all syllables remain in their original tone.

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In-Class Exercise

Counting numbers with hand gesture:

1 syllable: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 syllables: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16…

3 syllables: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26…..

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In-Class Listening Exercise

Dictation on words of two syllables:

baoguo, hupi, chongqing, fanxing etc.

bāoguǒ →bāoguò → bāogǒu

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In-Class Listening Exercise

1 class session on listening exercise

→ T: Chinese only; S: translate into E.

我们 系有很多外国学生。

那个高个子的男孩是我男朋友。

→ Use words of the same category to give clues.

→ Use resources available in the classroom

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Homework

Practice on tone recognition:

http://www.pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm

http://www.shufawest.us/language/tonedrill.html

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Homework: Sentence Dictation

- listen to sentences read in natural speed

- write down answers in Chinese, not

English.

- to reinforce sound recognition and to

associate sounds to the characters and

meaning they represent.

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Tones! Tones! Tones!

- Tones of a Chinese language is like the

foundation of a house.

- You cannot be understood no matter how

fluent you are in Chinese without tones.

- It is important to speak with correct tones

right at the beginning of Chinese language

study.

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The End