Clarification of Chinese (普通話) Tones: Contour Reduces to Pitch in Fast Speech

Описание: In the past few years life has gotten in the way of making videos, but now I'm back! In this video I discuss the following:

• ranking of pitch levels that contours reduce to in fast speech
• clarification of the difference between two TYPES of "stress": emphasis of entire WORDS vs. contour fullness of the syllables/morphemes within the word
• further reduction (smoothening) of even pitch levels into contours throughout words/phrases with multiple syllables
• internalization of tonology through listening

0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Contour Reduction to Pitch
2:22 - Average Pitch "Rule"
3:45 - Extra: you can pronounce x (the Pinyin letter) like y
4:45 - Example of internalizing 1-4-1 contour
5:13 - Internalizing pitch patterns through listening and repeating
7:11 - Example: 1-2-1
9:10 - Ranking of tones by pitch: 1, 2, 4, 3
9:54 - 1-4-1 vs. 1-2-1
11:26 - "Stress" as emphasis vs. fullness of contours within emphasized words
13:47 - 1-4 contour in 4 degrees of "stress": 鷄蛋 (full 4) vs. 機器 (half 4)
19:42 - There is actually a spectrum through the 4 degrees
22:44 - Passage from my dad
23:39 - Extra: 那個 can be used on both sides of an adjective colloquially
24:30 - Saying English words with Chinese tones!
25:33 - Smoothening of pitch over multiple syllables
28:53 - Correcting a morpheme: stress that morpheme or the word?
34:04 - Deliberate speakers still destress
35:20 - The art of multiple intonation options in a passage