While listening to students speaking or reading Chinese, I often notice something foreign, even if the pronunciation is comparatively good. What is it that makes one sound foreign to Chinese ears? An important factor is the masking of word tones by sentence intonation. Therefore, if a student pays enough attention to this point, he or she will sound less foreign.
The following is an article on the relation between word tones and sentence intonations. With the help of data and graphs, it deals with the following:
1. The difference in pitch of words with the same tone in one sentence.
2. Tones and Stress.
3. Tones and falling intonation.
4. Tones and rising intonation.
5. The successive addition of tones and intonations.
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