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Kuhnert, Barbara; Hoole, Phil – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
A simultaneous EPG/EMA study of tongue gestures of five speakers was conducted to investigate the kinematic events accompanying alveolar stop reductions in the context of a velar plosive /k/ and in the context of a laryngeal fricative /h/ in two languages, English and German. No systematic language differences could be detected. Alveolar…
Descriptors: English, German, Contrastive Linguistics, Physiology
Cheng, Chin-Chuan – 1986
A study of the relationships between Chinese dialects based on a quantitative measure of dialect affinity is summarized. First, tone values in all the dialect localities available in the early 1970s were used to calculate the dialectal differences in terms of tone height with respect to the "yin and yang" split. In the late 1970s, calculations of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics