Tonal effects on voice onset time: Stops in Mandarin and Hakka

Jui Feng Peng, Li-Mei Chen, Yi Yun Lin

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1 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)

摘要

This study examines the influence of lexical tone upon voice onset time (VOT) in Mandarin and Hakka. Examination of VOT values for Mandarin and Hakka word-initial stops /p, t, k, ph, th, kh/ followed by three vowels /i, u, a/ in different lexical tones revealed that lexical tone has a significant influence on the VOTs. The result is important because it suggests that future studies should take its influence into account when studying VOT values for stops in tonal languages. In Mandarin, stops' VOTs, ordering from the longest to the shortest, are in Tone 2, Tone 3, Tone 1, and Tone 4: this sequence is the same as Liu, Ng, Wan, Wang, and Zhang's (2008) [1] results. However, later it was found that the sequence results from the existence of non-words. Because in order to produce non-words correctly, participants tended to pronounce them at a lower speed, especially those in Tone 2. Therefore, we further examined the data without non-words, in which no clear sequence had been found. For Hakka, Post hoc tests (Scheffe) show that aspirated stops in Tones 4 and 8 have significantly shorter VOT values than they have in other tones.

原文English
主出版物標題Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2009
頁面115-123
頁數9
出版狀態Published - 2009
事件21st Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2009 - Taichung, Taiwan
持續時間: 2009 9月 12009 9月 2

Other

Other21st Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2009
國家/地區Taiwan
城市Taichung
期間09-09-0109-09-02

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 語言與語言學
  • 言語和聽力

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