A cross-dialect comparison of vowel dispersion and vowel variability

Wai-Sum Lee

doi:10.1109/ISCSLP.2012.6423458

A cross-dialect comparison of vowel dispersion and vowel variability

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The study is a cross-dialect comparison of the vowel systems of different inventories across five Chinese dialects in terms of vowel dispersion and vowel variability. The dialects include Meixian Kejia or Hakka with 5 vowels, Hong Kong Cantonese with 7 vowels, Fuzhou with 8 vowels, Ningbo with 10 vowels, and Wenling with 11 vowels. Formant frequencies were obtained through spectral analysis of speech data from 10 male and 10 female speakers of each dialect. The findings of this study do not support the vowel dispersion theory which predicts that (i) the larger the vowel inventory is, the more expanded vowel space will be in the F1F2 plane, and (ii) variability in vowel formants is inversely related to vowel inventory size. © 2012 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2012
Pages	25-29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2012.6423458
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2012 - Hong Kong, China Duration: 5 Dec 2012 → 8 Dec 2012

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Conference	2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2012
Country/Territory	China
City	Hong Kong
Period	5/12/12 → 8/12/12

Research Keywords

acoustic vowel space
Chinese dialects
formant frequencies
Vowel dispersion
vowel inventory size
vowel variability

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