Abstract
The present study investigates the co-articulation strength (CS) between the initial/final consonants and the neighboring vowels in Cantonese CV, VC, and CVC monosyllables, where C = [p t k] and V = [i a u]. EMA AG500 was used for recording the articulatory actions of the tongue and the lips during the test syllables. The findings based on the articulatory data collected from two male Cantonese speakers are as follows. First, CS is strong (i) between the initial [p-] and the following [i] or [u], but not [a], and (ii) between the final [-p] and a preceding vowel of any type. Second, CS is weak (i) between the initial [t-] and the following vowel of any type and (ii) between the final [-t] and the preceding [u], but not [i] or [a]. Third, CS is weak between the initial [k-] and the following [a], but not [i] or [u], however high between the final [-k] and the preceding [a]. In general, (i) the order of decreasing CS for both C-V and V-C co-articulation is when C = [p] > C = [k] > C = [t] and (ii) the degree of CS is higher in the VC than the CV context. The findings support the phonological structuring of the syllable, wherein the final consonant (or syllable coda), but not the initial consonant (or syllable onset), and the preceding vowel (or syllable nucleus) form the phonological unit of the rhyme.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Duez, D.: Second formant locus-nucleus patterns: an investigation of spontaneous French speech. Speech Commun. 11, 417–427 (1992)
Farnetani, E.: V-C-V lingual co-articulation and its spatiotemporal domain. In: Hardcastle, W.J., Marchal, A. (eds.) Speech Production and Speech Modelling, Ch. 5, pp. 93–130. Kluwer Academic Publishers (1990)
Fowler, C.A., Brancazio, L.: Co-articulation resistance of American English consonants and its effects on transconsonantal vowel-to-vowel co-articulation. Lang. Speech 43, 1–41 (2000)
Iskarous, K., Fowler, C.A., Whalen, D.H.: Locus equations are an acoustic expression of articulator synergy. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2021–2032 (2010)
Krull, D.: Second formant locus patterns as a measure of consonant-vowel co-articulation. PERILUS (Phonetic Experimental Research at the Institute of Linguistics University of Stockholm) V, pp. 43–61 (1987)
Krull, D.: Consonant-vowel co-articulation in spontaneous speech and in reference words. (Doctoral dissertation). PERILUS (Phonetic Experimental Research at the Institute of Linguistics University of Stockholm) VII, pp. 1–149 (1988)
Krull, D.: Second formant locus patterns and consonant-vowel co-articulation in spontaneous speech. PERILUS (Phonetic Experimental Research at the Institute of Linguistics University of Stockholm), X, pp. 87–108 (1989)
Lindblom, B.: Spectrographic study of vowel reduction. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 35, 1773–1781 (1963)
Modarresi, G., Sussman, H.M., Lindblom, B., Burlingame, E.: Stop place coding: an acoustic study of CV, VC#, and C#V sequences. Phonetica 61, 2–21 (2004)
Stevens, K.N., House, A.S.: Perturbation of vowel articulations by consonantal context: an acoustical study. J. Speech Hear. Res. 6, 111–128 (1963)
Sussman, H.M., Bessell, N., Dalston, E., Majors, T.: An investigation of stop place of articulation as a function of syllable position: a locus equation perspective. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 2826–2838 (1997)
Sussman, H.M., Hoemeke, K.A., Ahmed, F.S.: A cross-linguistic investigation of locus equations as a phonetic descriptor for place of articulation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1256–1268 (1993)
Sussman, H.M., McCaffrey, H.A., Matthews, S.A.: An investigation of locus equations as a source of relational invariance for stop place categorization. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 1309–1325 (1991)
Recasens, D.: V-to-C co-articulation in Catalan VCV sequences: an articulatory and acoustical study. J. Phonetics 12, 61–73 (1984)
Recasens, D.: Coarticulatory patterns and degrees of coarticulatory resistance in Catalan CV sequences. Lang. Speech 28, 97–114 (1985)
Recasens, D., Espinosa, A.: An articulatory investigation of lingual coarticulatory resistance and aggressiveness for consonants and vowels in Catalan. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2288–2298 (2009)
Acknowledgement
This research is supported by an International Scholarly Exchange Research Grants (#9500023/RG003-P-14) from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lee, WS. (2018). C-V and V-C Co-articulation in Cantonese. In: Fang, Q., Dang, J., Perrier, P., Wei, J., Wang, L., Yan, N. (eds) Studies on Speech Production. ISSP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10733. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00126-1_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00126-1_11
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-00125-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-00126-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)