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Shen, Xiaonan Susan; Lin, Maocan – Language Sciences, 1991
Examination of the perceptibility of carryover coarticulatory perturbations occurring at syllabic vowels in Mandarin Chinese suggests that, in connected speech, a portion of fundamental frequency at intertonemic onset is perturbed, including initial voiced consonants and vowels, and that the perturbations result from preservative as well as…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Mandarin Chinese
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Coblin, W. South – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
The rhyming practices of Sima Xiangru and Wang Bao, early and mid-western Han poets of the Shu area, reveal details about the finals of their languages. Comparisons are made of similarities and differences of their dialects to that of a later compatriot, Yang Xiong. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics