TY - CHAP
T1 - C-V and V-C Co-articulation in Cantonese
AU - Lee, Wai-Sum
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The present study investigates the co-articulation strength (CS) between the initial/final consonants and the neighboring vowels in Cantonese CV, VC, and CVC monosyllables, where C = [p t k] and V = [i a u]. EMA AG500 was used for recording the articulatory actions of the tongue and the lips during the test syllables. The findings based on the articulatory data collected from two male Cantonese speakers are as follows. First, CS is strong (i) between the initial [p-] and the following [i] or [u], but not [a], and (ii) between the final [-p] and a preceding vowel of any type. Second, CS is weak (i) between the initial [t-] and the following vowel of any type and (ii) between the final [-t] and the preceding [u], but not [i] or [a]. Third, CS is weak between the initial [k-] and the following [a], but not [i] or [u], however high between the final [-k] and the preceding [a]. In general, (i) the order of decreasing CS for both C-V and V-C co-articulation is when C = [p] > C = [k] > C = [t] and (ii) the degree of CS is higher in the VC than the CV context. The findings support the phonological structuring of the syllable, wherein the final consonant (or syllable coda), but not the initial consonant (or syllable onset), and the preceding vowel (or syllable nucleus) form the phonological unit of the rhyme.
AB - The present study investigates the co-articulation strength (CS) between the initial/final consonants and the neighboring vowels in Cantonese CV, VC, and CVC monosyllables, where C = [p t k] and V = [i a u]. EMA AG500 was used for recording the articulatory actions of the tongue and the lips during the test syllables. The findings based on the articulatory data collected from two male Cantonese speakers are as follows. First, CS is strong (i) between the initial [p-] and the following [i] or [u], but not [a], and (ii) between the final [-p] and a preceding vowel of any type. Second, CS is weak (i) between the initial [t-] and the following vowel of any type and (ii) between the final [-t] and the preceding [u], but not [i] or [a]. Third, CS is weak between the initial [k-] and the following [a], but not [i] or [u], however high between the final [-k] and the preceding [a]. In general, (i) the order of decreasing CS for both C-V and V-C co-articulation is when C = [p] > C = [k] > C = [t] and (ii) the degree of CS is higher in the VC than the CV context. The findings support the phonological structuring of the syllable, wherein the final consonant (or syllable coda), but not the initial consonant (or syllable onset), and the preceding vowel (or syllable nucleus) form the phonological unit of the rhyme.
KW - Cantonese
KW - Co-articulation
KW - Consonant
KW - Vowel
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-00126-1_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-00126-1_11
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 978-3-030-00125-4
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
SP - 111
EP - 120
BT - Studies on Speech Production
A2 - Fang, Qiang
A2 - Dang, Jianwu
A2 - Perrier, Pascal
A2 - Wei, Jianguo
A2 - Wang, Longbiao
A2 - Yan, Nan
PB - Springer, Cham
CY - Switzerland
T2 - 11th International Seminar on Speech Production, ISSP 2017
Y2 - 16 October 2017 through 19 October 2017
ER -