Abstract

A stop consonant is a phoneme that exists in all languages, and each language has one or more stop consonants systems, and each language's stop consonants system is divided into two, three, and four confrontation systems depending on the voice, presence of energy, or tension of the vocal cords. Standard Chinese stop consonants are clearly distinguished its phonation type by their aspiration characteristics, and have a binary oppositional system of aspirated and unaspirated consonants depending on the presence or absence of aspiration. This study examines the acoustic characteristics contributing to the discrimination of phonation type based on VOT, CD, VD, and F0, which are various acoustic characteristics of standard Chinese stop consonants in different environments. It is significant in that it is found that VOT, CD, and VD are acoustic cues that can divided into two confrontation system standard Chinese stop consonants, and F0 is not an acoustic cue that distinguishes the phonation types of standard Chinese stop consonants.

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