An acoustic study of monophthongs in Brunei Mandarin
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چکیده
This study provides an acoustic analysis of the monophthongs of Brunei Mandarin. Recordings were made of a short text by 20 Bruneian Chinese as well as 20 Beijing Chinese. Comparison of the scatter plots show that [i] and [y] are merged in Brunei Mandarin. This observation is quantified by calculating the Euclidean distance between the minimal pair nǐ [ni] and nǚ [ny] and the frequency of F3 of all open syllables with [i] and [y] in the text. The results confirm that [i] and [y] have a high degree of merger in Brunei Mandarin, while they tend to be distinguished in Standard Mandarin.
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