ilprincipe Posted December 21, 2009 at 09:52 AM Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 at 09:52 AM (edited) hello to all. I am trying to find on the web, some exercises to help with multiple (pairs or more) tone combinations recognition. the one I found so far is http://www.pinyinpractice.com/tones3.htm, quite good, but limited number of tests, and after a bit they become repetitive. Plus it only has pairs of two (), it would be nice if there were longer strings. Has anyone seen anything like that? thanks Edited December 21, 2009 at 02:08 PM by roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted December 21, 2009 at 02:10 PM Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 at 02:10 PM This any use? It is still only pairs, but should be plenty of them . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Pigeon Posted December 21, 2009 at 02:31 PM Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 at 02:31 PM Maybe this will help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilprincipe Posted December 27, 2009 at 04:58 PM Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 at 04:58 PM sorry for the late reply...my previous post was actually not posted. thanks for the replies, helpful links, although not quite was I was looking for. I am considering, writing a little application that generates random pairs (or more) and then reads it aloud using any of the text-to-speech applications.. I might even consider really random pairs, without necessarily be meaningful compounds, so that the student does not 'just recognises the meaning', but concentrates on the tones and tones combinations only. what do you think? would that be useful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrix Posted January 6, 2010 at 01:41 PM Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 at 01:41 PM no. Unless your application takes all the coarticulation effects into account. What I'm saying is each tone pair is pronounced in its unique way, it's not just a sequence of two isolated tones. I think this issue has been discussed on several other threads... I've asked some Chinese friends to record some chengyu for me, some in isolation, some embedded in a carrier sentence. Haven't had the time yet to do anything with the recording though.. But I plan to plug it into praat and have a look at the tones up-close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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