Prosodic structurally conditioned variation of coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Mandarin Chinese: Its language specificity and cross-linguistic generalizability
- Authors
- Li, Hongmei; Kim, Sahyang; Cho, Taehong
- Issue Date
- Sep-2020
- Publisher
- ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, v.148, no.3, pp.EL240 - EL246
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
- Volume
- 148
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- EL240
- End Page
- EL246
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/11564
- DOI
- 10.1121/10.0001743
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- Abstract
- This study compares prosodic structural effects on nasal (N) duration and coarticulatory vowel (V) nasalization in NV (Nasal-Vowel) and CVN (Consonant-Vowel-Nasal) sequences in Mandarin Chinese with those found in English and Korean. Focus-induced prominence effects show cross-linguistically applicable coarticulatory resistance that enhances the vowel's phonological features. Boundary effects on the initial NV reduced N's nasality without having a robust effect on V-nasalization, whose direction is comparable to that in English and Korean. Boundary effects on the final CVN showed language specificity of V-nasalization, which could be partly attributable to the ongoing sound change of coda nasal lenition in Mandarin. (C) 2020 Acoustical Society of America
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