31 Jan 2006

Ivan Yuen (QMUC)

It has been suggested that declination is a general phenomenon of weakening in articulation. Though most studies of declination have been focused on the laryngeal sub-system, a few studies reported declination in other articulatory sub-systems. In light of reported declination in articulation, a preliminary study was conducted to examine the effect of declination on the tongue-palate contact in Cantonese over time and test whether prosodic boundary will interact with declination during the production of vowel /a/ in Cantonese.

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