La producció dels sons oclusius del català per part dels aprenents sinòfons: estudi contrastiu, anàlisi d'errors i propostes de millora

Abstract

This contribution is inserted in the field of teaching Catalan language as a foreign language and, more specifically, in contrastive phonology. The paper contrasts plosive phonemes of Catalan and Standard Chinese —Putonghua— in segmental and suprasegmental syllabic (syllable distribution) domains in order to anticipate the difficulties that Chinese L1- speakers must face before mastering the pronunciation of plosive and approximant sounds in Catalan. The research is based on the production of /p-b/, /t-d /, /k-g/ in Catalan by 19 university students of Chinese origin aged 20- 35 living in the urban area of Barcelona. The analyzed corpus consists of 115 words or compounds with /p-b/, /t-d/ and /k-g/ in different syllabic positions (simple or complex opening at the beginning or inside of a word, simple or complex coda inside or at the end of a word), in order to be able to carry out a study encompassing as much as possible the different types of errors or inaccuracies that Chinese learners may present when speaking Catalan. Based on the errors that we detected, didactic strategies are proposed to improve the pronunciation of these learners.

Keywords

• catalan
• chinese
• plosive
• voiced
• voiceless