An Experimental Phonetic Analysis Of The Tone Sandhi Errors In Chinese By Thai Students

In recent years,the political,economic and cultural exchanges between China and Thailand have been increasingly deepened,more and more Thai students have chosen to study in China.According to statistics,the number of students from Thailand ranks the second in the world.In the Chinese teaching of Thai foreign students,the teaching of tone-changing problem of continuous tone is even more important.For Thai students acquisition of Chinese tones even read modulation of errors,use the Mini Speech Lab samples were collected for acoustic experiments,it is concluded that the Thai students Chinese tones read errors,analyses the reason of errors occur,and connecting with the actual teaching situation given the corresponding teaching strategies,help the students to better learn and use Chinese tones,say a pure Chinese,and improve the teaching quality and effect.Through the acoustic experiment analysis of the speech samples of six Thai foreign students,it is concluded that the errors in the acquisition of Chinese voice tone by Thai foreign students mainly include:negative transfer of tonal knowledge in Chinese;Cultural communication factors;The importance of tone teaching and methods.In view of the reasons for the errors of Thai students,corresponding teaching suggestions are given:correct the tone pronunciation in time to overcome the negative transfer of mother tongue;Strengthen the teaching of Chinese tone,tone teaching throughout;Learn more about cultural communication.