Phonotactics and phonetic context in the perception of onset nasality in Taiwanese
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BACKGROUND: NASALITY IN TAIWANESE • Nasal distinction is attested but restricted in Taiwanese phi55 ‘put on’ ph̃ı55 ‘take advantage of’ pi55 ‘sad’ p̃ı55 ‘side’ bi22 ‘flavor’ *b̃ı *mi mı̃55 ‘noodle’ • Previous account: especially before nasal vowels, this distinction would not be salient (Wang, 2017) – Full nasality in nasal vowels in Taiwanese (Chang et al., 2011) – Oral voiced stops lack strong burst release – [bã100%] and [mã] would sound really similar ∗ Different situation in French & Portuguese: where /b/ and /m/ are contrastive and there is an oral onset in [bã90%] (Chang et al., 2011; Delvaux et al., 2008; Parkinson, 1983)
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