tone combination practise

[ilprincipe]

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

[roddy]

This any use? It is still only pairs, but should be plenty of them . . .

[Flying Pigeon]

Maybe this will help.

[ilprincipe]

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?

[chrix]

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...