Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 2] 2013
► pp. 171–188
This sociophonetic study examines the production of the modern spoken Mandarin voiced labial-velar approximant /w/ in isolation and zero initial environments. Acoustic analyses of ten native Mandarin speakers’ productions reveal that some speakers produce /w/ as both [w] and [ʋ]. The environments in which [w] and [ʋ] appear suggest that this variation may be allophonic, conditioned by the syllable nucleus. Furthermore, our results show evidence of regional and gender variation: northern female Mandarin speakers produce [ʋ] in more contexts and more frequently than speakers from other regions.
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