Whispering in Chinese: What Happens to Tones?

✨ Improve Your Chinese Tones and Intonation With My New Course: https://gracemandarin.myteachify.com/... Use “TONE20” to get 20% off — limited to the first 30 users! 🗣️ Visualize pitch and perfect your Chinese tones with 300 common phrases in my mini course: https://emurse.io/course/speak-chines... Register to try the first lesson for free! 🌟 Join me on Patreon for exclusive Chinese learning content:   / gracemandarinchinese   What happens to Chinese tones when we whisper? In this video, you’ll see what happens to tones in this situation, and whether people can still hear them. ⚡️ Time code: 00:00 Introduction 00:36 Can Chinese, a tonal language, be whispered? 01:01 Do tones still exist in whispering? 05:47 Why can we still understand each other? 06:21 Summary 07:09 Are tones really important? 07:41 My new course 08:26 Thank you for watching until the end! References: (Check out these interesting studies for more information!) Martin Kloster Jensen (1958) Recognition of Word Tones in Whispered Speech, WORD, 14:2-3, 187-196, DOI: 10.1080/00437956.1958.11659663 Whalen, D. H., & Xu, Y. (1992). Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments. Phonetica, 49(1), 25–47. https://doi.org/10.1159/000261901 Jiao, L., and Xu, Y. (2019). Whispered Mandarin has no production-enhanced cues for tone and intonation. Lingua , 218 pp. 24-37. 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.01.004. Yang, Patricia. (2020). How amplitude influences Mandarin Chinese tone recognition in whisper. Thanks to all the researchers and authors whose work made this video possible! | You can Find me HERE | 🔸INSTAGRAM(@gracemandarin): https://is.gd/kUfMh6 🔸FACEBOOK: https://is.gd/7PALYx 🔸TWITTER: https://is.gd/ps4zC6 🔆 PROMOS • Skritter - An app for helping you learn Chinese characters (Using the code "GRACEMANDARINCHINESE" to get 10% off)：https://skritter.com/?ref=graceguo&co... • Du Chinese - Improve your Chinese through level-based reading (Using the code "GraceMandarin" to get 10% off)：https://www.duchinese.net/?fpr=grace92 • If you’d like to learn Chinese in a more structured way, click this link - https://bit.ly/30XP5R1 - and use the promo code “LETSGOYOYO” to get 10% off of full access to Yoyo Chinese’s easy-to-follow courses! 🎈 Check out my friend's cartoons Yin + Yangster at http://www.yangstercomics.com 📩 Contact me: [email protected]