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An Acoustical Study of Chinese Disyllable Compound Vowels and Pronunciation Training Plan

Mi Sook Ko 1

1한동대학교

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Through this experiment, we analyzed the difference between native Chinese speakers and Korean learners to Chinese language in the utterance of Chinese compound vowels consisting of disyllable. Fundamentally, the result of analysis of monosyllable utterance was still produced in disyllable utterance. But the difference was not clearly presented because each length of syllable in disyllable utterance almost came down in half compared to each length of syllable in monosyllable utterance. In the utterance of rising diphthongs disyllable, the length of the front syllable of native Chinese speakers was longer than that of Korean learners to Chinese language, and the difference was statistically significant. The length of the back syllable of native Chinese speakers in rising diphthongs disyllable was shorter than that of the front syllable. But it proved that native Chinese speakers pronounce the front and back syllable of rising diphthongs longer than Korean learners. In the utterance of falling diphthongs disyllable, native Chinese pronounced the front and back syllable of falling diphthongs longer than Korean learners, but as a result of T-test between two groups, the difference in the length of each syllable was four to six in the rate of significant versus nonsignificant. In the utterance of triphthongs disyllable, the length of the front syllable of native Chinese was longer than that of Korean learners, and it was one to one in the rate of significant versus nonsignificant. In triphthongs, native Chinese pronounced the back syllable longer than Korean learners as they pronounced the front syllable longer than Korean learners, and this was statistically significant. With the above analysis, the difference in the length of the front and back syllable was not significant in the utterance of Chinese diphthongs disyallble. Pronunciation is very hard to be corrected later despite of many efforts because wrong habits in learning pronunciation are easily formed and fossilized. For the reason, it is important that more detailed and scientific Chinese education program should be made for understanding the exact difference of phonemes between mother tongue and a foreign language at the beginning of learning the foreign language. When Chinese teachers teach learners Chinese, they have to explain the exact Chinese syllabication system; and let learners realize that Chinese medial vowel is pronounced comparatively shorter than nucleus vowel. But in Chinese, it is the combination of full vowel where all the phonetic value of each vowel is asserted while Korean diphthongs is the combination of semi vowel and full vowel.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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