A comparison study of information contributions of phonemic contrasts in Mandarin. Abstract: Phonemic contrasts are the basis of speech communication.

Multidimensional scaling is used to comparatively analyze the information contributions of Initials and Finals (Chinese sub-syllabic units) in Mandarin and ...

Jan 24, 2016 · In our study, we calculated the proportions (here termed degree of contrast) of minimal pairs to the words in which the two contrastive phonemes ...

Nov 22, 2022 · In this paper, I compare three contrasting rhymes involving the low vowel: /an/, /a/, and /aŋ/. The mid vowel rhymes /ən/, /ə/, and /əŋ/ undergo ...

More specifically, we compare the relative contribution of auditory and visual information during Mandarin Chinese tone perception with congruent and ...

This study explores the difficulties in distinguishing different lexical tone contrasts at both sub-lexical and lexical levels for beginning and advanced ...

Results showed that native English speakers performed better in the L2 Mandarin tone imitation task than in the tone production and perception tasks. In ...

Aug 3, 2022 · The results indicated that different types of phonemic contrasts, and even the identification and discrimination of the same phonemic contrast, ...

This study provides a careful examination of this language-specific theory by exploring the role of phoneme-level awareness in Mandarin Chinese, a language with ...

This comparison, in which Mandarin-Chinese speakers were trained to pronounce the English /r/-/l/ phonemic contrast, provides preliminary evidence to support ...