The Articulatory and Acoustic Variability in Putonghua Onset /r/
Published online on July 30, 2025
Abstract
Language and Speech, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 535-562, June 2026.
The debate about the rhotic sound in Standard Mandarin (i.e., Putonghua) focuses on its articulation as a retroflex and its classification as either a fricative or an approximant. To address these questions, this study examines the syllable-initial r-...
The debate about the rhotic sound in Standard Mandarin (i.e., Putonghua) focuses on its articulation as a retroflex and its classification as either a fricative or an approximant. To address these questions, this study examines the syllable-initial r-...