Abstract
The nature of intrinsic consonantal F0 perturbations on tonal F0 in Vietnamese is investigated. Mean F0 and duration data for five unstopped tones of a female native speaker of Vietnamese, controlling for the effect of a three-way contrastive difference in VOT between alveolar stops, is presented. It is shown that [t], and [d] produce expected perturbations, but not [th], which evinces lower F0 at onset. The significance of this finding for differential tonal split conditioned by aspiration is discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2294-2297 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Brisbane, QLD, Australia Duration: 22 Sept 2008 → 26 Sept 2008 |