Evaluation of Aspiration Sounds of Chinese Labial Diphthong Uttered by Japanese Students Using VOT and Breathing Power

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A Chinese aspiration is generally considered to be very difficult to reproduce by Japanese students. We measured the voice on set time(VOT) and mean power during VOT, as the evaluation parameters, of diphthong sounds of pai[p'ai], pao[p'ao], pei[p'ei] and pie[p'iε] in Chinese aspirations uttered by nine Japanese students and nine native Chinese speakers. The sounds were evaluated by the listening test of eight native Chinese speakers. Then we proved that the VOT was not the sole measure for evaluating the pronunciations but also the mean power during VOT was the other measure for evaluating them. Thus,we conclude that power is also an important factor in evaluating the quality of pronunciation.
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