Abstract

Supra segmental features (or prosody) include variations in pitch (such as tone and intonation), stress (or accent), and rhythm. In contrast to Chinese segmental phonemes, supra-segmentals, specifically Chinese lexical tones, pose a much greater challenge to Chinese language learning and teaching.

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