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Phonetics Seminar: Matthew Faytak & Bowei Shao (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Fricative noise targets for vowels: a comparative acoustic study”

Abstract: The so-called "fricative" and "apical" vowels, which occur throughout the Chinese languages, are known to have constriction locations more anterior than those of high front vowels, and are canonically produced with some fricative noise. However, recent descriptions have disagreed on how much fricative noise is actually involved in the production of these vowels, with...