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Direct linkMok, Peggy P. K. – Language and Speech, 2013
This study tests the output constraints hypothesis that languages with a crowded phonemic vowel space would allow less vowel-to-vowel coarticulation than languages with a sparser vowel space to avoid perceptual confusion. Mandarin has fewer vowel phonemes than Cantonese, but their allophonic vowel spaces are similarly crowded. The hypothesis…
Descriptors: Vowels, Articulation (Speech), Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages
