Applications of Pitch Pattern in Chinese Tone Learning System

摘要

Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language and it is a big barrier for foreign learners in the understanding of the features of the tones when studying Chinese. In order to give them a more direct understanding of the Chinese tones, this paper presents a visualized pitch pattern of the tones and gives effective guidance derived from the analysis of tone discrimination error corpus. The system is mainly designed for elementary level students. Precise acoustic data of the Chinese tones have been utilized for designing the system. Characteristics of the errors found in the examination have been analyzed, and these characteristics have been carefully considered while constructing the system.