NDLI: Acoustic features of Mandarin monophthongs by Tibetan speakers

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Author	Lu Zhao Hui Feng Huixia Wang Jianwu Dang
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Liberal Arts & Law, Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China (Lu Zhao; Hui Feng) \|\| Tianjin Key Lab. of Cognitive Comput. & Applic., Tianjin, China (Huixia Wang; Jianwu Dang)
Abstract	The present study, under the framework of Lado's Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (1957) and Flege's Speech Learning Model (1995), is to find out whether and to what extent the Tibetan vowel space of native Tibetan speakers affects the “working” vowel space of Mandarin Chinese. The experiment adopts the experimental phonetic approach to examine the features of vowel space of 10 Tibetan speakers (5 male and 5 female) when they read monosyllabic words in Tibetan and Standard Chinese. When compared with the vowel space of Chinese speakers, the vowel space of Tibetan speakers presents the following features: 1. The overall distribution of the vowel space of Tibetan speakers is higher than that of Chinese speakers because the vowels produced by Tibetan speakers have lower Fl. 2. Under the influence of Tibetan vowel system, Tibetan speakers' vowel space of Mandarin monophthongs is slightly to the right of Chinese speakers' vowel space. 3. With the calculation of the Euclidean Distance between Tibetan speakers' monophthongs and Chinese speakers' monophthongs, the production of Mandarin monophthongs by Tibetan male speakers cannot be explained by Flege's Speech Learning Model, while the production of Mandarin monophthongs by Tibetan female speakers provides more evidence to the justification of Speech Learning Model.
Starting Page	147
Ending Page	150
File Size	883263
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479953301
DOI	10.1109/IALP.2014.6973503
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-10-20
Publisher Place	Malaysia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Shape Monophthongs Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis Tibetan Production Euclidean distance Speech Learningcjee Model Speech Educational institutions Acoustics Mandarin Pragmatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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