Author(s)

Hongjie Wang, Mingxiao Gu, Yonghong Li

Corresponding Author

Yonghong Li

ABSTRACT

This paper uses the method of experimental phonetics acoustic analysis nasals in Xiahe dialect, we found that the nasals in Xiahe dialect has been divided into three parts: single nasals, nasals after clear fricative /h/ and nasals after voiced fricative /ɦ/. By comparing the time length, energy and formant, it is found that there is a great difference between the time length and energy of /h/ and /ɦ/. In addition, fricatives has little effect on the energy of nasal, while has a great effect on the time length.

KEYWORDS

Xiahe dialect of Tibetan, nasal, acoustic analysis