Acoustic analysis of Chinese fricatives and affricates
Författare
Summary, in English
A method of analyzing & describing the acoustic properties of fricatives is developed & applied to the fricatives & to the fricative components of the affricates of Standard Chinese. The method consists of making f spectra using the Fast Fourier Transform & analyzing the spectra in terms of critical bands. Three measures are proposed for characterizing the fricative spectra: the center of gravity, the dispersion, & the mean intensity level. The six fricatives of Chinese, & the fricative components of the six affricates are analyzed by this method, & compared with other langs. There is also some discussion of the significance of the results for the perception of Standard Chinese fricatives, & the relation of the method to distinctive feature theory.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1986
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
53-70
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Volym
14
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
University of California
Ämne
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0091-3723