The acquisition of tones is one of the difficultis for Japanese students learning Chinese (还是Mandarin?), and the neutral tone happens to play an important role among these tones.This paper analyzes the inaccuracies relating to F0 contour,F0 range and duration when Japanese studens prouncing Chinese characters of disyllabic or trisyllabic neutral tones. The result shows that, compared with Chinese students, when pronouncing characters of neutral tones, Japanese students don't have obvious differences in terms of F0 contour. The major difference lies in F0 range -- they tend to pronounce within a smaller range and with lower positions. As for the duration, they tend to pronounce it longer than necessary.
专业的词应该你比我更懂, 所以就直接用你的了