The Research on Mandarin Chinese Consonants from Perspective of EPG

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10.2991/iwcss-13.2013.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Electropalatography; Mandarin Chinese; Articulation Places and Manners

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the contact between tongue and hard palate during production of Mandarin Chinese consonants by means of Electropalatograph (EPG). Their tongue characteristics of onset are obtained: plosives have tongue-palate contact mainly in anterior, and completely block involve more contact during production; under the same manner of place, affricates involve more contact than fricatives; laterals concentrate their tongue-palate contacts on alveolar and anteriority, resulting high anteriority and centrality; nasal involve alveolar contact with high anteriority and centrality but low posteriority. Using EPG to record the contact state of pronunciation can help recording and describing voice more objectively and more precisely, enriching and modifying some interpretation and theory.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanhua Duan
AU  - Dongxu Zhang
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - The Research on Mandarin Chinese Consonants from Perspective of EPG
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Computer Science in Sports
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 32
EP  - 35
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iwcss-13.2013.10
DO  - 10.2991/iwcss-13.2013.10
ID  - Duan2013/08
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