维吾尔族学习者对汉语普通话塞音的范畴感知

文章通过范畴感知实验研究雏吾尔族学习者对汉语普通话送气／不送气塞音音位的感知模式。实验结果表明,维吾尔族学习者能够在感知中区分普通话的不送气和送气塞音两种音位范畴,但是区分能力较低。尽管[送气]不是维吾尔语音系中的区别性特征,但是由于维语中的清塞音具有送气变体,因此学习者能够很好地在感知中分辨送气塞音,而对不送气塞音的分辨能力较差,同时他们对这两种范畴的感知受到了母语音系中的清／浊范畴的影响,将汉语普通话中的送气／不送气特征都感知为母语中的清音范畴。

Categorical Perception of Stops in Standard Chinese by Uygur

A categorical perception (identification and discrimination ) was conducted to investigate how Uygur learners process the aspirated and unaspirated stop categories in SC. The results show that the learners could discriminate the two phonological categories, but not very well. Having the phonetic experience of aspiration in the allophones of voiceless stops in their native language, the learners could identify the aspirated SC stops very well, but their identification on unaspirated stops is poor. The learner's processing pattern of the categories is influenced by the voiced/voiceless categories in Uygur, especially by the distribution of the voiceless phonemic allophones, and this leads to the following processing error patterns: 1) they map the SC aspirated stops onto their native voiceless stops, so they could identify the aspirated SC stops very well; 2) they assimilate the SC aspirated and unaspirated stops to their native voiceless stop category, therefore, their discrimination on the two SC stop category is poor. The results of the study support the hypothesis of Perceptual Assimilation Model and"phonetic experience".