The Perception of Cantonese Vowel Length Contrast by Mandarin ...

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A tonal split that is synchronically conditioned by vowel duration has occurred in Standard Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken primarily in. Guangdong ...

Predicting Discrimination Accuracy by Assimilation Pattern: How do

The differences in vowel length between the two sounds in each contrast were ... how well Mandarin speakers discriminate those four target vowel contrasts ...

The effects of native prosodic system and segmental context on ...

“Tone perception in. Cantonese and. Mandarin: A cross-linguistic comparison,”. J. ... “Effects of vowels on Mandarin tone categorical perception ...

Non-native Japanese listeners' perception of vowel length contrasts ...

Vance TJ (1986) An introduction to Japanese phonology. Albany: State University of New York. Press. Zee E (1991) Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese). Journal of ...

Vowel Effects on L2 Perception of English Consonants by Advanced ...

Their first language vary in Mandarin (56 cases) and. Cantonese (11 cases), but they all use Mandarin daily in their boarding school-life. The average period ...

Does language contact influence the direction of ... - labphon

... Mandarin Chinese bilinguals' cue weighting in production and perception of the vowel length contrast of their L1,. Long'an Zhuang (a Tai language in Guangxi ...

Perception of Mandarin Tones by Native and Nonnative Listeners

Fox [1992] suggests that knowledge of the phonological rule that neutralizes vowel contrast in this context may have affected the ability of ...

Vowel development in young Mandarin-English bilingual children

By contrast, the Mandarin vowel system is structured in a triangular shape with the three vowels /a, i, u/ occupying the corner positions. To ...

A preliminary study on Cantonese vowel development by young ...

Further comparison regarding the acquisition of vowel length contrast among HSs, homeland children, and native teenagers indicated that while reference speakers ...

Production and Perception of Laryngeal Contrasts in Mandarin and ...

They tend to associate high F0 with the voiceless stops and low F0 with the voiced stops. The intrinsic F0 of the vowels also play a role and a perceptual ...

Acoustic Properties of Vowel Production in Mandarin-English Bilingual

(2012). Cross-dialect and cross-language differences in perception of vowels: A multidimensional scaling study. Journal of. Acoustical Society of America, 131 ...

Incongruent visual cues affect the perception of Mandarin vowel but ...

We conclude that, in contrast to vowel perception, auditory tone perception seems ... production and perception of cantonese lexical tones.

Journal of Chinese Linguistics Vol. 34, No. 1, 134-154, January 2006

As shown in Figure 4, in both Mandarin and Cantonese, the duration of the finals also depends on the height of the nucleus vowel. In increasing duration, they ...

Perception of Tashlhiyt consonant quantity contrast by native vs ...

The primary cue –consonant duration– may be accompanied by prosodic cues such as flank- ing vowels' durations and/or pitch. [4] showed that.

Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime ... - MIT

consonants in Cantonese Chinese. It is found that three of ... It suggests that in the grammar of Cantonese vowel length enhances the. ATR/height contrast.

A Systematic Review: Exploring L2 Vowel Production from Revised ...

For instance, research on the duration of vowels produced by Chinese English speakers showed different findings. Some studies reported that L2 Chinese English ...

Contrastive perception of duration and F0 cues for stop categorization

In addition to vowel duration, we found that F0 contour plays a role in contrastive perception for those with experience in Mandarin. The target ...

Perception and production of Mandarin-Accented English

Acoustically examining common and unique contrasts, Han,. Choi, Lim, and Lee (2011b) compared acoustic properties of vowels (vowel duration, F1, and F2 measures) ...

Acoustic Analyses of L1 and L2 Vowel Interactions in Mandarin&ndash

Firstly, as these three vowels are shared by and are commonly used in Mandarin and Cantonese, it was possible to use them to conduct cross-linguistic ...

Individual aptitude in Mandarin lexical tone perception predicts ...

Training native English speakers to identify Japanese vowel length contrast with sentences at varied speaking rates. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121 ...