The study is a spectral analysis of the vowels and syllabic approximants in Beijing Mandarin. It presents: (i) the average F1, F2, F3 values for the resonant sounds, (ii) the vowel ellipses for the resonant sounds, showing their relative positions in the F1/F2 plane, (iii) the vowel diagrams, showing the F-patterns of the first three formant frequencies of the resonant sounds, (iv) the formant trajectories for the rhotic schwa, showing that the vowel in the V syllables is actually a sequence of a plain schwa and a rhotic schwa, and (v) the diagrams of the average vowel positions for the vowels followed by a nasal ending, showing that the effect of the nasal ending on the F1 and F2 of the vowel sounds varies accoring to vowel type and nasal type.
Cite as: Zee, E., Lee, W.-S. (2001) An acoustical analysis of the vowels in beijing Mandarin. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 643-646, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-169
@inproceedings{zee01_eurospeech,
author={Eric Zee and Wai-Sum Lee},
title={{An acoustical analysis of the vowels in beijing Mandarin}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={643--646},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-169}
}