Author(s)

Na Li

Corresponding Author

Na Li

Abstract

When teaching minority students the common speech of the Chinese language, tone teaching has always been a difficult point. This paper took the intonation of the Lahu language and the common speech of China as research objects, carried out a phonetic experiment to extract acoustic data, and applied the phonology method to summarize and describe the acoustic characteristics of the intonation of the Lahu language and the Mandarin. From the perspective of pitch and length of tone, this paper compared the features of their tones and summarizes relevant rules, with a view to provide useful suggestions for the teaching of tones in common speech of China for Lahu students.

Keywords

The Lahu language, the common speech of China, tone experiment