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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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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)
mà
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Mā
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má
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mǎ
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mà
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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)
Mā
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The 2nd Tone (“Climbing” Tone)
máSo?
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The 3rd Tone (“Growling” Tone)
mǎ
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The 4th Tone (“Dropping” Tone)
mà
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