文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：The phonology and phonetics of Kaifeng Mandarin vowels

作者：Wang, Lei[1]

机构：[1] School of Foreign Languages, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

年份：2020

卷号：2020-October

起止页码：651

外文期刊名：Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

收录：EI(收录号：20205209692468)

基金：This investigation is supported by a research fund offered by East China University of Science and Technology (JKS012022003). Thanks are due to the reviewers for their carefully reading of an earlier version and their constructive comments and suggestions. I am grateful to Carlos Gussenhoven for discussions of this topic.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Speech communication

摘要：In this present study, we re-analyze the vowel system in Kaifeng Mandarin, adopting a phoneme-based approach. Our analysis deviates from the previous syllable-based analyses in a number of ways. First, we treat apical vowels as syllabic approximants and analyze them as allophones of the retroflex approximant /. Second, the vowel inventory is of three sets, monophthongs, diphthongs and retroflex vowels. The classification of monophthongs and diphthongs is based on the phonological distribution of the coda nasal. That is, monophthongs can be followed by a nasal coda, while diphthongs cannot. This argument has introduced two new opening diphthongs /ee ??/ in the inventory, which have traditionally been described as monophthongs. Our phonological characterization of the vowels in Kaifeng Mandarin is further backed up by acoustic data. It is argued that the present study has gone some way towards enhancing our understanding of Mandarin segmental phonology in general. ? 2020 ISCA