TY - CHAP
T1 - A cross-language study of stop aspiration
T2 - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008
AU - Chen, Li-Mei
AU - Chao, Kuan Yi
AU - Peng, Jui Feng
AU - Yang, Jing Chen
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISM.2008.86
DO - 10.1109/ISM.2008.86
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:62949151328
SN - 9780769534541
T3 - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008
SP - 556
EP - 561
BT - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2008
Y2 - 15 December 2008 through 17 December 2008
ER -