A study of the differences in Mandarin vowel space area by region and gender
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2025.03.005
- VernacularTitle:不同地域和性别受试者的普通话元音空间面积的差异研究
- Author:
Yanjing CAO
1
;
Xiao LANG
;
Xiaoming LIU
;
HaKyung KIM
;
Junqing LEI
;
Lingjing JIN
Author Information
1. 长沙民政职业技术学院(长沙 410004)
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Vowel space area(VSA);
Acoustic analysis;
Vowel triangle;
Mandarin
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2025;33(3):227-231
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the differences in Mandarin vowel space area(VSA)across geographic regions and genders.Methods Healthy college students residing in Beijing(62 cases,32 males and 30 females)and Shanghai(62 cases,32 males and 30 females)were selected to study the Mandarin VSA with six Chinese vowels(/a/,/e/,/i/,/u/,/o/,/ü/,and the short text Vacation)as the corpus,respectively.Results The differences in VSA between genders were extremely significant(P＜0.001),and the VSA of females was significantly larger than that of males.Simple effect tests for speech material and region showed that when the speech material was con-tinuous speech,the VSAs of Beijing and Shanghai subjects showed no significant difference,but when the speech material was unitary speech,the VSAs of Shanghai subjects were significantly larger than those of Beijing subjects(P=0.003,P＜0.01).Conclusion The VSAs of female adults were larger than those of male adults,and the front vowels of females were more fronted and the back vowels were more backward.The differences produced by different regions based on the Mandarin system of pronunciation were not significant.
