The Sounds of Chinese with Audio CD [With CD] by Lin, Yen-Hwei

The Sounds of Chinese with Audio CD [With CD]

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Standard Chinese, designed for English-speaking students...
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Author: Yen-Hwei Lin
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Language: English
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The Sounds of Chinese with Audio CD [With CD] by Lin, Yen-Hwei

The Sounds of Chinese with Audio CD [With CD]

CHF 132.01

The Sounds of Chinese with Audio CD [With CD]

CHF 132.01
Author: Yen-Hwei Lin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Standard Chinese, designed for English-speaking students with no prior knowledge of linguistics. It explains from scratch the fundamentals of articulatory phonetics (the study of how speech sounds are produced) and phonology (the study of sound systems), and clearly applies them to the phonetic and phonological properties of Chinese. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, syllable structure, tone, stress, intonation, loan words and different varieties of Standard Chinese. Clear comparisons with English sounds are given wherever relevant, along with practical pronunciation advice. All the sounds described are demonstrated by native speakers in a set of web-based audio files, and over fifty graded exercises are provided, encouraging students to put their knowledge into practice. Building a solid understanding of how Chinese sounds work, this text will be invaluable to students of Chinese wishing to improve their pronunciation, their teachers, and students of Chinese linguistics.

Author: Yen-Hwei Lin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/17/2007
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.13w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780521603980

About the Author
Lin, Yen-Hwei: - Yen-Hwei Lin is Professor of Linguistics at Michigan State University. She is editor of Special Issue on Phonetics and Phonology (Language and Linguistics 5.4, 2004) and Proceedings of the Fifteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (2004).

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