KuanYi Chao

A Cross-Language Study of Stop Aspiration: English and Mandarin Chinese

2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2008

Voice onset time (VOT) has been considered as one of the crucial methods for examining the timing... more Voice onset time (VOT) has been considered as one of the crucial methods for examining the timing of voicing in stop consonants in many languages. This study was designed to examine VOT production for phonetically voiceless stops of Mandarin and English by native Chinese speakers. Thirty-six Taiwanese Chinese speakers participated in this study. The results indicates that: 1) Based on

The Effect of Lexical Tones on Voice Onset Time

2009 11th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2009

This study aims to examine the influence of lexical tone upon voice onset time (VOT) in Mandarin ... more This study aims to examine the influence of lexical tone upon voice onset time (VOT) in Mandarin and Hakka. Examination of VOT values for Mandarin and Hakka word-initial stops in different lexical tones revealed a significant influence. In Mandarin, stops&amp;#x27; VOTs, ordering from the longest to the shortest, are in Tone 2, 3, 1, and 4, which conforms to Liu et al.&amp;#x27;s (2008) results. However, it was found that the sequence results from the existence of non-words. Participants tended to pronounce non-words at a lower speed in order to produce them correctly. Therefore, data without non-words were further examined, in which no clear sequence had been found. For Hakka, Post-hoc tests show that aspirated stops in Tones 4 and 8 have significantly shorter VOT values than they have in other tones. The result suggests that future studies should consider the effect of lexical tone when studying in tonal languages.

A Cross-Linguistic Study of Voice Onset Time in Stop Consonant Productions

Int. J. Comput. Linguistics Chin. Lang. Process., 2008

This study examines voice onset time (VOT) for phonetically voiceless word-initial stops in Manda... more This study examines voice onset time (VOT) for phonetically voiceless word-initial stops in Mandarin Chinese and in English, as spoken by 11 Mandarin speakers and 4 British English speakers. The purpose of this paper is to compare Mandarin and English VOT patterns and to categorize their stop realizations along the VOT continuum. As expected, the findings reveal that voiceless aspirated stops in Mandarin and in English occur at different places along the VOT continuum and the differences reach significance. The results also suggest that the three universal VOT categories (i.e. long lead, short lag, and long lag) are not fine enough to distinguish the voiceless stops of these two languages.

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