Perceptual Assimilation And Distinguish Experimental Study Of America Learners Of Chinese To Mandarin Consonants

This paper based on the perception of this research is relatively less, using the research methods of perceptual experiments, to American Chinese learners for the crowd, the effects of their perception of consonants in Mandarin. This research mainly uses the two popular second language acquisition theory category namely Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) and Speech Learning Model (SLM).The two was established in second language speech to be assimilated into the native category based on, imitate the non-native speech presented to the learner’s difficulties, holds the view that listeners in a non-native perceived success rate model.This paper designed two experiments, the first is perceptual assimilation experiment, the second is perceptual discrimination experiment. The two experiment subjects were asked to make judgments on the perception of Chinese consonants in the native speech category. By the experiment of perceptual assimilation of consonants in Mandarin stimulus results can predict the second experiment’s result. Because of the use of the two model experiments is relatively less, so the research method of this paper can provide experience and ideas for future research. At the same time, American learners’ perception of the experimental data and results of Mandarin consonants can provide reference for the teaching of Chinese consonants.The content of this paper consists of fifth parts:The first part is the introduction. Introduce the background of this paper, a contrastive study of English and Mandarin consonants and Correlation study of English and Mandarin consonants contrast, two theoretical model of second language learning, and the summary of previous research results, and finally points out the research content, the purpose and significance of this paper.The second part is the comparison of Chinese and English consonants system and the acquisition status quo. Introduce Chinese and English consonant system and compare them. Then it explains the related acquisition errors of America learners of Chinese.The third part is the USA learners perceptual assimilation experiments on the part of Mandarin consonants. Introduce the experimental purpose, experimental methods, results, conclusion and discussion. Research shows that, perceptual assimilation according to place of articulation, followed by the method of pronunciation; vowel after the consonant can affect the assimilation results; second language learning level has no significant effect on the assimilation results.The fourth part is the USA learners perceptual discrimination experiments on the part of Mandarin consonants. Introduce the experimental purpose, experimental methods, results, conclusion and discussion. Research shows that, the difference of Chinese contrasts has significant effect; vowel after the consonant can affect the discrimination results; second language learning level has no significant effect on the discrimination results, but this does not mean that does not exist second language acquisition.The fifth part is the discussion of the experimental results. Discuss the experimental results of perceptual assimilation experiments and perceptual discrimination experiments. Finally, the experimental results of the paper are summarized, and the further research directions are pointed out.