Does Vowel Inventory Density Affect Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation?
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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)

莫碧琪教授 (语言学及现代语言系)

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摘要This study tests the output constraints hypothesis that languages with a crowded phonemic vowel space would allow less vowel-to-vowel coarticulation than languages with a sparser vowel space to avoid perceptual confusion. Mandarin has fewer vowel phonemes than Cantonese, but their allophonic vowel spaces are similarly crowded. The hypothesis predicts that Mandarin would allow more coarticulation than Cantonese. Eight native speakers of Cantonese and of Beijing Mandarin were recorded saying the target sequences /pVhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1pVhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2pV3/ (V = /i a u/) in carrier phrases. Fhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1 and Fhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2 frequencies were measured at vowel edge and midpoint, and were normalized for analyses. The results show that Cantonese and Mandarin do not differ in degree of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in either Fhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1 or Fhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2. In addition, unstressed vowels exhibit more coarticulation than stressed vowels. Carryover coarticulation exceeds anticipatory coarticulation in both Fhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1 and Fhttp://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2. Unstressed vowels in the carryover position are the most susceptible to coarticulation. The results show that vowel inventory does not predict vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Fundamental assumptions of the output constraints hypothesis are evaluated to explain its failure in predicting language-specific patterns of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. The importance of syntagmatic relationships in coarticulation is also discussed. ? The Author(s) http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/20http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2.

着者Mok P.P.K.
期刊名称LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
出版年份http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/20http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/13
月份6
日期http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1
卷号56
期次http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2
出版社SAGE Publications
出版地United States
页次http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/19http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1 - http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/209
国际标準期刊号00http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/23-8309
语言英式英语

关键词Cantonese, Mandarin, vowel inventory, vowel-to-vowel coarticulation