Nasal and Nasalized Vowels in Taiwanese : An Aerodynamic and Acoustic Study

• Main Authors: Hsieh, Yu-Lun, 謝育倫
• Other Authors: Chang, Yueh-chin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80438129593585219519

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 語言學研究所 === 99 === This research aims at systematically investigate the aerodynamic and acoustic aspects of nasal vowels and nasalized vowels in Taiwanese, a language that has a nasality contrast in its vowels but are subject to stricter restrictions on nasality distribution than French. Our results show that i) the onset consonantal effects on nasal anticipatory coarticulation are subtly different between the two languages; ii) in onset positions, aspirated stops and fricatives induce more nasal coarticulation, iii) coda [n] triggers the least anticipatory vowel nasalization in both languages, iv) the production of nasal vowels are generally the same and vowel height is positively correlated with nasalization in both languages, v) that French has more nasal airflow volume than Taiwanese does. Taken together, our results confirm that phonological patterning does have a bearing on phonetic implementation