Tone production in whispered Mandarin

Charles Chang; Yao Yao

Tone production in whispered Mandarin

Charles Chang^*
, Yao Yao

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Acoustic analyses of normal voiced and whispered Mandarin Chinese reveal significant differences in duration and intensity among the four lexical tones, differences that are moreover similar across the two speech genres. In contrast to previous claims, however, these differences among the tones are found to shrink in whisper rather than being exaggerated to facilitate perception. Furthermore, individual variation exists in the production of whispered tones, which are found to shorten or lengthen with respect to normal voiced tones depending on the speaker.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Editors	Jürgen Trouvain, William J. Barry
Place of Publication	Saarbrücken, Germany
Publisher	Universität des Saarlandes
Pages	1085–1088
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-9811535-0-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-9811535-1-4
Publication status	Published - Aug 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007) - Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Duration: 6 Aug 2007 → 10 Aug 2007 https://www.icphs2007.de/

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Conference	16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007)
Place	Germany
City	Saarbrücken
Period	6/08/07 → 10/08/07
Internet address	https://www.icphs2007.de/

Research Keywords

Mandarin Chinese
tone
whisper
duration
intensity

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Chang, C & Yao, Y 2007, Tone production in whispered Mandarin. in J Trouvain & WJ Barry (eds), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 1085–1088, 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007), Saarbrücken, Germany, 6/08/07. <https://www.icphs2007.de/conference/Papers/1655/index.html>

Tone production in whispered Mandarin. / Chang, Charles; Yao, Yao.
Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ed. / Jürgen Trouvain; William J. Barry. Saarbrücken, Germany: Universität des Saarlandes, 2007. p. 1085–1088.

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