An Acoustical Analysis of the Vowels in Beijing Mandarin

Eric Zee; Wai-Sum Lee

An Acoustical Analysis of the Vowels in Beijing Mandarin

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The study is a spectral analysis of the vowels [i, y, a, ǝ, ɚ, ɤ, u] and syllabic approximants [ɹ̩, ɻ̩] in Beijing Mandarin. It presents: (i) the average F₁, F₂, and F₃ values for the resonant sounds, (ii) the vowel ellipses for the resonant sounds, showing their relative positions in the F₁/F₂ plane, (iii) the vowel diagrams, showing the F-patterns of the first three formant frequencies of the resonant sounds, (iv) the formant trajectories for [ɚ], showing that the vowel in the V syllables is a sequence of [ǝ] and [ɚ], and (v) the diagrams of the average vowel positions for the vowels followed by a nasal ending, showing that the effect of the nasal ending on the F₁ and F₂ of the vowel sounds varies according to vowel type and nasal type.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia
Subtitle of host publication	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd INTERSPEECH Event
Editors	Paul Dalsgaard, Børge Lindberg, Henrik Benner, Zheng-Hua Tan
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	643-646
ISBN (Print)	87-90834-10-0 , 978-87-90834-10-4
Publication status	Published - Sept 2001
Event	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia): 2nd INTERSPEECH Event - Aalborg, Denmark Duration: 3 Sept 2001 → 7 Sept 2001 http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/eurospeech_2001/index.html

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Conference	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia)
Place	Denmark
City	Aalborg
Period	3/09/01 → 7/09/01
Internet address	http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/eurospeech_2001/index.html

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Zee, E & Lee, W-S 2001, An Acoustical Analysis of the Vowels in Beijing Mandarin. in P Dalsgaard, B Lindberg, H Benner & Z-H Tan (eds), EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia: 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd INTERSPEECH Event. International Speech Communication Association, pp. 643-646, 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia), Aalborg, Denmark, 3/09/01.

An Acoustical Analysis of the Vowels in Beijing Mandarin. / Zee, Eric; Lee, Wai-Sum.
EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia: 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2nd INTERSPEECH Event. ed. / Paul Dalsgaard; Børge Lindberg; Henrik Benner; Zheng-Hua Tan. International Speech Communication Association, 2001. p. 643-646.

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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