Quantity Convergence, Quality Divergence: Disentangling Fluency and Accuracy in L2 Mandarin Prosody

This linguistic research study analyzes how Vietnamese learners of Mandarin Chinese acquire prosodic patterns, finding that advanced learners achieve native-like quantity in speech boundaries but develop inverted structural mapping patterns. The study reveals a trade-off between maintaining fluent output and achieving accurate prosodic structure in second language acquisition.