A Comparative Analysis of Acoustic Characteristics between Kazak & Uyghur Mandarin Learners and Standard Mandarin Speakers

Abstract

In this paper, based on the vowel and phonological pronunciation corpora of 20 Kazakh undergraduate Mandarin learners, 10 Uyghur learners, and 10 standard pronunciations, under the framework of the phonetic learning model and comparative analysis, the method of experimental phonetics will be applied to the Kazak and Uyghur learners. The learners and standard speaker Mandarin vowels were analyzed for acoustic characteristics, such as formant frequency values, the vowel duration similarity and other prosodic parameters were compared with the standard speaker. These results are conducive to providing learners with effective teaching-related reference information, providing reliable and correct parameters and pronunciation assessments for computer-assisted language teaching systems (CALLs), as well as improving the accuracy of multinational Chinese Putonghua speech recognition and ethnic identification.