A Study On Errors In Tone Acquisition Of Chinese Bi-syllabic Words By Middle And Advanced Russian Students

In the process of teaching and learning Chinese as a second language,pronunciation is the external expression of the language.Correct pronunciation is very important.Once a certain pronunciation forms a habit,it is not easy to correct it.It is especially difficult for foreign students to learn tones in Chinese pronunciation,because the wrong tones are accumulating day by day,and even if the Chinese language reaches advanced level,there will still be "foreign accent".In addition,the tone will also affect the meaning of expression.For example,if "clear" is read as "clear",the meaning of the word will change,so the accuracy of tone pronunciation is very important.At present,the research on tones of Chinese as a foreign language mainly includes empirical and non-empirical research.Non-empirical research is a summary of the teaching experience of the teachers.Empirical research is mainly through experimental research.Phonetic experiments are divided into perception and pronunciation experiments.This paper is devoted to an empirical study on the pronunciation errors of the tones of Chinese disyllabic words for senior and middle-level Russian students.Ten Russian students at Shanghai Foreign Studies University and 20 Russian students at senior and middle-level Chinese level are selected as subjects.A vocabulary consisting of 16 tone combinations is designed.Eight words are selected for each tone combination to collect the pronunciation data of senior and middle-level Russian students.First,excel was used to sort out the data and statistically analyze the errors in the tones of Chinese disyllabic words of Russian students.Then,Praat doing phonetics by computer software was used to analyze the pronunciation data of two words in each tone combination collected.The tone errors of Chinese disyllabic words of senior and middle-level Russian students were described in detail from the aspects of tone type and tone value to find out the rules.The experimental results show that Russian Chinese learners have almost made progress in acquiring the tones of disyllabic words from intermediate level to advanced level.Moreover,Russian students with intermediate and advanced Chineselevel do not have the awareness of tone sand hi.The overall error rate of tone combinations with positive prefix is relatively high.Russian students are easy to confuse the positive prefix with the upper prefix in the tone combinations of disyllabic words.On the contrary,the error rate of Yang ping in the back word is lower and easier to master.Compared with the other three tones of the latter word,the error rate of the latter word is relatively high,so the acquisition of the latter word is relatively difficult.According to the Russian-Chinese phonetic comparison theory,the causes of errors are analyzed in depth to provide effective suggestions for tone teaching in Russian-speaking areas.