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Economic principles in teaching Chinese as a foreign language

The practical situation of Chinese teaching in American universities requires that some
detailed language skills which are non-consequential in real communication (which do not
affect intelligibility) be substandardized, thus reserving valuable class time and
resources for dissemination of cultural knowledge -- the major function of foreign
language courses in general education. As more than half of the Chinese population and
the majority of overseas Chinese students come from dialectal backgrounds, allowing
substandard pronunciations and incorporating substandard variations can be a useful
measure to effective and economic language teaching.

keywords: substandard, variation resources, initial r, retroflex consonants, retroflex

vowels, tone sandhi,

general
education)

,
(strictly

standard)(substandard) (informal)

bi, nan, kan

zh ch sh z c s
zhchsh
(1979) zhchishir

1996

zi, ci, si, zhi, chi, shi, ri i

i (natural continuation and amplification)

r sh
r r r
( r r )

( 1983)(1982)
r sh r l
zh ch sh

(1980)
(1988)

(citation form)

C 5 1

1-3

Peter

1-4

big car

2-2

John? Yes? ()

2-4

Yes? Good! ()

3-1

Peter?

3-2

Japan?

3-4

Detroit

4-1

Oh, man! ()

4-2

Yes! No?

4-4

Right! Right! ()

()

(PCR)

bu4 qu4

bu qu4

-r
-r

10 K

()

1986
2002

r r
round circle curl u yu
yuanquan juan qiuChan 1996(sound
symbolism) r

1996 ,
1986 21

2002

1979 1979(4)

1985 1985(3)
1988

1980

1983 1983(1)
1982 1982(3)19-22

Chan, Marjorie K-M 1996 Some thoughts on the typology of sound symbolism and the Chinese
language. Proceedings of the Eighth North American Conference on Chinese linguistics.
Vol.2:1-15, Los Angeles: GSIL Publications. Pp.1-15

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