"I bit you or I beat you?" Acoustic analysis of vowel contrast produced by Malay speakers

• 主要な著者: Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani, Pillai, Stefanie
• フォーマット: Conference or Workshop Item
• 言語: English
• 出版事項: 2016
• 主題: P Philology. Linguistics; PE English
• オンライン･アクセス: http://irep.iium.edu.my/74301/2/74301_9th%20Malaysia%20International%20Conference_cp.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/74301/

This paper examines the acoustic properties of two pairs of English vowels: /i:/, /ɪ/ and /u:/,/ʊ/ produced by two sets of Malay speakers. This study was motivated by claims that Malaysian English (MalE) speakers do not distinguish these vowels’ phonemic lengths. The data was obtained from the recor...