Tone and vowel quality
Tone and vowel quality
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音调和元音质量
DOI：
10.1121/1.2016211
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1977
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E. Zee
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E. Zee
该研究调查了声调对元音质量的影响。讲声调语言（台湾语）的人被要求发出元音 [i]、[u]、[e]、[o]、[ɔ] 和 [a]，并根据基频水平使用两种最大对比的声调（高降声调和低音声调）。在大多数情况下，这些元音是该语言中有意义的单音节语素。初步结果表明元音质量受声调影响。除 [a] 之外的所有元音在以高降调产生时都具有较高的第一共振峰频率。共振峰频率的差异很小但一致。在某些情况下，如果某些词汇的声调被高声取代，元音就会升高，例如，在福州语中（Chao，1933；Yuen et al.，1960；Chen and Norman，1965；Maddieson，1975），而升调则升高元音，例如，在拉祜语中（Matisoff，1973）。我们的结果似乎与这些情况指向相反的方向，因为第一共振峰频率被认为与元音高度成反比。 [美国国家科学基金会支持的研究。]
The study investigates the influence of tone on vowel quality. Speakers of a tone language, Taiwanese, were instructed to produce the vowels, [i], [u], [e], [o], [ɔ], and [a], with two maximally contrasted tones, the high‐falling and the low, in terms of fundamental frequency level. In most cases, these vowels are meaningful monosyllabic morphemes in that language. Preliminary results indicate that vowel quality is affected by tone. All vowels except [a] have a higher first formant frequency when they are produced with the high‐falling tone. The difference in formant frequency is small but consistent. There are cases in which the vowel is raised if the tone of some lexical items is replaced by a high tone, e.g., in Foochow (Chao, 1933; Yuen et al., 1960; Chen and Norman, 1965; Maddieson, 1975) and a rising tone raises a vowel, e.g., in Lahu (Matisoff, 1973). Our results seem to point in the opposite direction from these cases as the first formant frequency is taken to be inversely related to vowel height. [Research supported by NSF.]