Effect of the consonant context on the corner vowel produced by native and Chinese speakers: based on AESOP corpora.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the differences in the consonant context on the four corner vowels (/i/, /u/, /æ/, and /ɑ/) between native and Chinese speakers using the AESOP-ILAS 1 corpus dataset. Ninety-six test subjects with manually adjusted data comprising of 12 native speakers (the control group) and 84 non-native speakers (the targeted group), with 58 Chinese speakers (even gender distribution), 22 Taiwanese speakers (quasi-equal gender distribution), and 4 Hakka-speaking women, were chosen for the analysis. By adopting continuous speech initially, a general comparison of the vowel space for the native and the non-native speakers is presented. Next, the vowel space of the liquid and glide sonorants in the onset and the coda position are compared. The nasal sonorants are compared in their s

SUBMITTER: Zhu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12483891 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature