VOWEL DISPERSION AND VARIABILITY—DATA FROM THREE CHINESE DIALECTS

• 作者: LEE Wai-Sum ZEE Eric
• 来源期刊: 中国语音学报
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: VOWEL DISPERSION and VARIABILITY FORMANT frequencies Acoustical VOWEL space VOWEL INVENTORY size Chinese DIALECTS
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（1）
• 页码范围: 143-152
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: H17

摘要

The study~1 investigates dispersion and variability of the vowels of three Chinese dialects,namely Yongding,Cantonese,and Wenling with the three-,seven-,and eleven-vowel systems,respectively.Measurements of formant frequencies were obtained through spectral analysis of speech data from ten male and ten female speakers of each dialect Results show that a larger vowel inventory correlates a more expanded acoustical vowel space for the three Chinese dialects,which supports the prediction of the vowel dispersion theory that the larger the vowel inventory is,the more expanded vowel space will be.However,the difference in vowel space is not linearly related to the difference in vowel inventory size.Furthermore,the vowel dispersion theory’s prediction that variability in vowel formant frequencies is inversely related to vowel inventory size is not supported by the vowel formant data from the three Chinese dialects.