ACQUISITION OF TONE IN MANDARIN-SPEAKING CHILDREN
ACQUISITION OF TONE IN MANDARIN-SPEAKING CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1017/s0305000900001598
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发表时间：
1977-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
THOMPSON, SA
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作者：
LI, CN;THOMPSON, SA
到目前为止，虽然有关于语调和重音习得的研究，但还没有系统的关于词汇语调习得的研究。本文通过对台北市17个普通话家庭的儿童进行为期八个月的田野调查，发现：（1）声调习得是在较短的时间内完成的;（2）声调的掌握早于音段的掌握;（3）普通话的上声和降声先于上声和降声的掌握;（4）上声和下声在整个声调习得过程中相互替代;（5）非重读音节被视为重读音节，分配给它们的声调近似于它们所携带的语音条件音高;（6）普通话降调的连读变调现象在命题语句开始时就已习得，错误率很低。这些事实的解释可以从学习控制声门音高相对于发音机制的相对容易性、升调的相对困难性以及普通话中声调的相对突出性等方面给出。
Until now, although there has been research on the acquisition of intonation and stress, there has been no systematic study of the acquisition of lexical tone. Based on data collected during eight months of field work with 17 children of Mandarin-speaking families in Taipei, we have found that (1) tone acquisition is accomplished within a relatively short period of time; (2) mastery of tones occurs well in advance of mastery of seg-mentals; (3) the Mandarin high-level and falling tones are acquired before the rising and dipping tones; (4) the rising and dipping tones are substituted for each other throughout the tone acquisition process; (5) unstressed syllables are treated as if they were stressed, the tone assigned to them being an approximation of the phonetically conditioned pitch which they carry; (6) the tone sandhi phenomena associated with the dipping tone in Mandarin are acquired with very little error as soon as propositional utterances begin to be created. Explanations for these facts can be given in terms of the relative ease of learning to control glottal pitch as opposed to articulatory mechanisms, the relative difficulty of rising pitch, and the relative salience of tone in Mandarin.