Research on Chinese Phonetic Awareness: Taking Cantonese Dialect as an Example

Subjects: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics >> Linguistics and Applied Linguistics submitted time 2023-04-28

翁毅 孔江平

Abstract： This study explores the ability of Chinese adults to detect and manipulate different speech units through speech awareness testing, and discusses the impact of rhyming and basic speech perception units in Chinese populations, as well as the knowledge of Chinese pinyin, on the establishment of speech awareness in Chinese populations. The experiment examined the performance of two groups of adult participants (each consisting of 15 people) with/without Pinyin ability in the local dialect of Duanzhou, Zhaoqing, in seven phonological awareness tests (syllable awareness, vowel detection, tone detection, initial detection, vowel substitution, tone substitution, and initial deletion). The test results showed that both groups of participants had complete syllable awareness; The Pinyin group is proficient in detecting and manipulating tonal units, while non Pinyin groups find it difficult to operate longitudinal tones alone, but have a certain level of detection ability. Among them, detecting vowels is the best, followed by tones, and vowels are the worst; The ability to generate rhyming syllables with a given stimulus without the need to extract vowels from the syllables; Pinyin groups can cut syllables at the sound vowel boundary, while non pinyin groups cannot; The acquisition of Pinyin will change the basic perception mode of Chinese phonetics.

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