The phonation types in Fuzhou Chinese
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0018/000433Keywords:
Fuzhou Chinese, phonation type, voice quality, tone-vowel interactionAbstract
This pilot study provides an acoustic description of the phonation types in Fuzhou Chinese. Speech samples from 5 native speakers show that tones [21 242 24] are breathy, while [44 32 4] are mainly modal and [51] is modal-breathy. Acoustic measure HNR35 can distinguish these phonation types, while H1*-A1* can only differentiate [24] and the end of [51] from other tones.References
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