Abstract
This paper presents a comparison between the articulatory configurations of native English speakers and native Mandarin speakers speaking English. Data is taken from the Marquette Electromagnetic Articulography corpus of Mandarin Accented English (EMA-MAE), which includes 20 native English and 19 native Mandarin speakers, focusing on vowel trajectories from isolated word data. A comparison is made between English vowels that have corresponding vowels in Mandarin, versus those that do not, with results supporting the idea that variability of articulator positioning in L2 speakers is larger for vowels that are unique to English than for those that have corresponding vowels in the native language.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2019 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728153414 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2019 |
Event | 19th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019 - Ajman, United Arab Emirates Duration: Dec 10 2019 → Dec 12 2019 |
Publication series
Name | 2019 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019 |
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Conference
Conference | 19th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019 |
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Country/Territory | United Arab Emirates |
City | Ajman |
Period | 12/10/19 → 12/12/19 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 IEEE.
Keywords
- Electromagnetic articulography
- articulatory features
- confidence ellipse
- vowel
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Information Systems
- Signal Processing
- Information Systems and Management