A cross-language study of stop aspiration: English and Mandarin Chinese

Li-Mei Chen, Kuan Yi Chao, Jui Feng Peng, Jing Chen Yang

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1 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)

摘要

Voice Onset Time (VOT) has been considered as one of the crucial methods for examining the timing of voicing in stop consonants in many languages. This study was designed to examine VOT production for phonetically voiceless stops of Mandarin and English by native Chinese speakers. Thirty-six Taiwanese Chinese speakers participated in this study. The results indicates that: 1) Based on the three universal categories proposed by Lisker and Abramson (1964)[1], for phonetically voiceless stops, Mandarin and English occupies the same place along the VOT continuum; 2) The mean VOT value for the apical stop /t/ is slightly lower than the mean value for the labial stop /p/. This does not conform to the general agreement, that is, the further back the place of articulation the longer VOT.; 3) The difference between the mean VOT values of English /p/ and /t/ produced by Chinese speakers is subtle, whereas the difference reaches significance for native English speakers. Therefore, it is suggested that first language (i.e. Chinese) could be a crucial factor affecting L2 (i.e. English) productions. Moreover, variations, both within and between speakers, could be further examined in future studies.

原文English
主出版物標題Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008
頁面556-561
頁數6
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2008 12月 1
事件10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008 - Berkeley, CA, United States
持續時間: 2008 12月 152008 12月 17

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名字Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008

Other

Other10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008
國家/地區United States
城市Berkeley, CA
期間08-12-1508-12-17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 電腦繪圖與電腦輔助設計
  • 電腦科學應用
  • 電氣與電子工程

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