A comparison of Spanish lexical stress and two standard Mandarin tones in isolated words: The tonal contour

Authors

  • Junming Yao Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2014.011

Keywords:

Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, word-level stress, tones, contour similarity

Abstract


This comparative study investigates the relationship between the contour of the word-level stress in Spanish and that of two standard tones in Mandarin Chinese, namely the first and the fourth tones. The experiment was carried out with isolated Spanish words. Contour similarity was found between the word-level stress in Spanish par-oxytone (non-hiatus) and proparoxytone words and the first Chinese tone, as well as between the stress in oxytone words and the fourth tone. These results could be used in teaching Spanish to Chinese students and vice versa.

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Published

2014-12-30

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Yao, J. (2014). A comparison of Spanish lexical stress and two standard Mandarin tones in isolated words: The tonal contour. Loquens, 1(2), e011. https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2014.011

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