Articulatory Timing In Huainan Dialect Bilabial

The present dissertation makes an attempt to investigate into the articulatory timing between gestures in Huainan dialect bilabial within he framework of Articulatory Phonology according to experiments.Articulatory Phonology is a gesture-based phonological theory developed by Browman,Goldstein and their colleagues(Browman and Goldstein 1988,1989,1992,1995). They claim that gestures are basic elements in langusge, and syllables are formed by mutually coupled gestures. The questions raised in the previous paragraph will be investigated in the framework of this theory.Speech sounds in language are traditionally believed to be linearly arranged one after another,but recent gesture-based studies find that this is not always the case. In a CVC syllable, while the gesture of the syllable-final consonant starts after the completion of the vowel, the gesture of the syllable-initial consonant starts simultaneously with that of the vowel(Xu and Liu te2006).Phonetics field has a lot of discussion about articulatory timing Such as :《Mandarin tones: An articulatory phonology account》Gao, Man Yale University 2008。In her dissertation, she makes an attempt to investigate Mandarin Tone.Li yunjing makes an attempt to investigate the articulatory timing in Mandarin syllable.They both take Mandarin as Research Object, take EMMA, one of laboratory apparatus as experimental technological method, but spend little time on Articulatory time. The present dissertation use the newest laboratory equipment---Waves, makes an attempt to investigate Articulatory timing in Huainan dialect bilabial, in order to investigate Huainan dialect bilabial.Totally there are five kinds of elements in Huainan bilabial, including: syllable-initial consonants(C)、nuclear vowels(V)、Prenuclear glides(G)、Postnuclear glides(E,from ‘ending’,distinguished from G)、Nasal codas(N).The timing relationship between five pairs of gestures, including CV、CG、GV、VE、VN.Results show that these pairs can all be assumed to start simultaneously from the beginning of the syllable.By integrating these intergestural timing relationships together, we can propose an overall model of gestural organization in Huainan Dialect,that is,all the gestures in a syllable start simulataneousonly from the beginning of the syllable,but end one by one differently.The initial consonant C ends first,then does the glide G,the vowel V, and at last the ending E.The primary significance of the present dissertation is that it is the first time to investigate the timing relationship between the productions of Huainan Dialect Bilabial by Waves,and an integrated model of syllable structure,bring a better understanding of the timing relationships between Dialect bilabial.