2007/01/01 by Hui-ju Hsu, John Kwock-Ping Tse · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Arts and Humanities · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Syllable #Mandarin Chinese #Chen #Linguistics #Current (fluid) #History #Physics #Philosophy #Geology
paper · doi:10.6241/concentric.ling.200701_33(1).0001
openalex publication_date 2007/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
The current study examines syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin. One major finding is that the ethnic gap of syllable-final nasal mergers has been leveled. Meanwhile, the merger directions observed in the current study are in accordance with Ing (1985) and Chen (1991a) in that the syllable-final nasals tend to be alveolarized if preceded by [ə] and velarized if preceded by [i]. However, this [iN] merger direction contradicts Kubler (1985) and Tse (1992). Chen (1991a) and the current study presented inconsistent results in terms of the leading merger. Chen (1991a) suggested that [in] to [iŋ] was leading the merger while the current study suggests that the leading merger is [əŋ] to [ən].