An Experimental Phonetic Analysis Of Russian Students' Continuous Change In Chinese

Russian is non-tonal language, while Chinese is tonal language and achieved to distinguish meaning by the tone. So for Russian students the tone is one of the difficulties in the process of Chinese acquisition, tone sandhi is the difficult point in the process of tone acquisition. This paper is dedicated to the Russian students' Chinese tone sandhi acquisition. The most common Chinese tone sandhi concerned about "the third tone + non-third tone", “the third tone+the third tone” and “the forth tone +the forth tone”. The monosyllables are the basis of Chinese tone sandhi. And the experimental analysis on the acquisition of the tone of monosyllables can determine some errors' reason that the acquisition of monosyllables or just in learning tone sandhi. Disyllables are in the majority in the structure of Chinese, so this paper mainly studies tone sandhi of the disyllables. We found that Russian students are apt to confuse the second tone and the third tone through contacts and exchanges with them. And the monosyllables' experimental results are also prove this problem. Therefore, we will do the other monosyllables' experiments about the second tone and the third tone to see if there are errors as extension of the tone sandhi experiment. This paper used the developed by professor of Nankai University Mr. Stoneblade “Mini-Speech lab” software to analyze the experimental materials of monosyllabic words and disyllabic of several Russian students. And we can get correlative tone curve and pitch of monosyllabic words and disyllable. This paper analyzed the errors of Russian students in Chinese tone sandhi and disyllable acquisition by comparing with the Chinese students,and put forward the corresponding teaching suggestions.