2022
DOI: 10.1121/10.0015547
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Modeling retroflex fricative variation in accented mandarin

Abstract: Since dental-retroflex fricative contrast is not consistently maintained in many southern dialects of Chinese, native speakers of these dialects may not accurately produce the Mandarin retroflex fricative /ʂ/. Consequently, /ʂa/ may be realized as [sa] (Duanmu, 2007). This study investigated the variation of the retroflex fricative /ʂ/ in a Chinese Mandarin speech corpus (DataTang, 2018). The corpus contains 200 hours of recordings of 600 speakers from different dialectal regions in China. Each recording was a… Show more

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