Темп на речта и темп на артикулацията на българската реч на носители на китайски мандарин, изучаващи български език като чужд
Rate of speech and rate of articulation of Bulgarian speech by Chinese Mandarin speakers studying Bulgarian as a foreign language

Author(s): Milena Patseva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language acquisition, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: speech rate; rate of articulation; teaching prosody; Bulgarian language; Chinese Mandarin
Summary/Abstract: Prosodic aspects of the read speech of Bulgarian and Chinese Mandarin native speakers who are learning Bulgarian as a foreign language are compared. The goal is to analyze the temporal dimensions of their speech, looking for the reasons for the differences and identifying problem areas as guidelines for teaching. With the methods of instrumental phonetics using Praat we measure the total time of reading a text and calculates the values of speech rate (with pauses) and articulation rate (without pauses), as well as the percentage of pauses. The results show that both types of pace are slower in the read speech of Bulgarian as L2. Among the reasons for this are the high rate of duration of pauses and hesitations, the extended time of articulation, the “opening” of syllables by vocalic epenthesis,as well as the lack of reduction of unstressed syllables. The differentiation between stressed and unstressed syllables is reduced, which contributes to the foreign accent of the Chinese speakers.

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