Vowel chart of Cantonese contrastive vowels.

Vowel chart of Cantonese contrastive vowels. - ResearchGate

... are seven long vowels / a / , / i / , / ɛ-e/, /ɔ -o / , / u / , / oe / , / y / and four short vowels ( / ɪ / , / ɵ / , / ɐ / , / ʊ / ) in Cantonese (Zee, ...

Cantonese phonology - Wikipedia

In this analysis, vowel length is a key contrastive feature of the vowels. ... The following chart lists all the finals in Cantonese as represented in IPA.

Contrast in Cantonese Vowels - University of Toronto

A major means of studying phonology in Chinese languages is by coming to an understanding of co-occurrence restrictions within the syllable. Phonological ...

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

Vowel length contrasts refer to the phonological oppositions between long and short vowels, which can signal different word meanings (Odden, 2011). Languages ...

Cantonese Phonology – Corpus-based Mandarin Pronunciation ...

There are 11 vowels and 11 diphthongs in Cantonese (Zee, 1999). Seven of them are long vowels /i, y, ɛ, œ, a, ɔ, u/, and four are short vowels /ɐ, ...

File:Cantonese vowel chart.svg - Wikipedia

Date, 19 February 2009, 06:37 (UTC) ; Source. Based on the vowel chart in "Handbook of the International Phonetic Association", chapter "Chinese (Hong Kong ...

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

Vowel length contrasts in Cantonese are less straightforward. Cantonese has 13 vowel phones, including seven long vowels [iː yː uː ɛː œː ɔː aː] ...

The Acquisition of Cantonese Vowel Length Contrast and Vowel ...

However, relative to the performance of. Cantonese speakers, SA students produced Cantonese rounded vowels with less lip rounding. In addition, smaller ...

The Acquisition of Cantonese Vowel Length Contrast and Vowel ...

However, relative to the performance of. Cantonese speakers, SA students produced Cantonese rounded vowels with less lip rounding. In addition, smaller ...

View of Contrast in Cantonese Vowels

... examples and discussions deal with the Hong Kong variety of Cantonese.Co-occurrence restrictions are important in any discussion of Cantonese phonology.Co ...

Production of the English vowels in Cantonese and Japanese children

A comparison of the vowel systems of English and Cantonese shows that the front vowels in English contrast in three levels of vowel height, i.e., the high ...

Vowel and diphthong, development in Cantonese-speaking

He predicted that children would acquire the less marked vowels with maximal contrast first, that is, [a] and [i]. Then, the marked round vowels would be ...

The Acquisition of Vowel Length in Cantonese - CORE

Chapter One, in languages with contrastive vowel length, underlyingly long vowels are assigned two moras, and short vowels one in Moraic Theory, (see 1.3 in ...

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

Vowels in. Cantonese contrast in length and lip rounding. Vowel quality (formant) and quantity (duration) are the significant cues for the distinction of vowel ...

CANTONESE VOWEL MERGER-IN-PROGRESS

Extracted from a read passage, the bark-normalized formant values of the three pairs of vowels with length contrast ([a]-[ɐ], [ɛ]-[e], and [ɔ]-. [o]) were ...

COMPREHENSIVE PAPER COVER SHEET Variation and Change ...

2009), this paper examines variation in four contrastive vowels in Cantonese: /iː/, /uː/, /ɔː/, and /ɛː/. This is a part of the vowel ...

The Underlying Representation of Cantonese Vowels

á a… The finals chart below is arranged such that each row contains one vowel and each column contains one final consonant/offglide. Page 9 ...

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

The results revealed that all participant groups could discriminate three contrastive vowel pairs (/aː/–/ɐ/, /ɛː/–/e/, /ɔː/–/o/), but their ...

A Population Study of Children's Acquisition of Hong Kong ...

Children mastered Cantonese in the following order: contrastive tones, vowels ... Cantonese and English vowels demonstrated a universal trend in typical vowel ...

CONTRASTIVE HIERARCHY ANALYSIS OF THE MANDARIN ...

The main problem in the description of the Mandarin vowel system lies in the treatment of mid vowels, as can be seen below. Table 1. Vowels in Chinese. Front.