本文運用感知聽辨和語音分析相結合的方法,通過與漢語母語者的對比,考察了歐洲漢語學習者漢語普通話輕聲的感知及產出情況,探討了音高、音長這兩個語音要素在輕聲感知和產出中的作用。研究結果發現,對漢語母語者來說,音高和音長都會對輕聲感知產生影響,其中音高的作用大于音長;而漢語學習者則主要依靠音長來感知輕聲,音高的作用不明顯。在輕聲產出中,音高和音長偏誤都普遍存在。音高偏誤既有非輕聲音節的聲調偏誤,又有輕聲音節的調型偏誤,音長偏誤主要表現為音長縮短幅度較小。

Based on both perceptual distinguishing and phonetic analysis,by comparing with that of Chinese native speakers,this paper investigates the perception and production of Chinese neutral tone on European Chinese learners,and further explores the effect of pitch and duration on the perception and production of neutral tone.The results show that for Chinese native speakers both pitch and duration affect the neutral tone perception,and that the effect of pitch is greater than that of duration.Chinese learners,however,are found to mainly rely on the duration to perceive the neutral tone,while the effect of the pitch is not obvious.In the production of neutral tone by Chinese learners,pitch and duration errors are common.Pitch errors include not only tone errors made in non-neutral tone syllables,but also pitch errors in neutral tone syllables.Duration errors are often made when learners produce neutral tone syllables longer than native speakers.