@InProceedings{Ding2010_570,
<br/>   author = {Hongwei Ding and Hansjörg Mixdorff and Oliver Jokisch},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2010},
<br/>   title = {Pronunciation of German Syllable Codas of Mandarin Chinese Speakers},
<br/>   year = {2010},
<br/>   editor = {Hansjörg Mixdorff},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {281--287},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {This study investigated the production of German syllable codas by
speakers of Mandarin Chinese, and found that the pronunciation of the second foreign
language (L3) will not only be influenced by the native language (L1) but
also by the first foreign language (L2). The structure of Chinese syllable is very
simple, which ends either with a vowel or a nasal consonant /n/ or /ng/. German,
however, can have consonant cluster codas up to 4 consonants. Different linguistic
constraints will have effects on the German language pronunciation acquisition
of Chinese students. In this study 6 Chinese students of three different levels and
two native German speakers were asked to read 102 German words with different
syllable codas, and 20 German words. The results revealed that Chinese speakers
tended to modify the syllable codas by inserting epenthesis, deleting one or more
consonants, or substituting features of the consonants. Some pronunciation deviations
can be explained by the transfer from Chinese language, such as epenthesis
after consonant codas and very strong aspiration of voiceless stops; others can be
accounted by the transfer from English, such as substitution of clear /l/ with dark
/l/ after a vowel. The results also show that the beginners employed more modifications
than advanced speakers, which indicates that accuracy of foreign language
pronunciation can be improved, it may take a long period of time. This investigation
can thus supply implications for language teaching to facilitate the progress of
improvement. On the other hand, the results can also provide more information for
the development of a computer-aided pronunciation training system.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-941298-85-9},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Language Acquisition and L2 Learning},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2010_281_287.pdf},
<br/>}