南部中国語の音節末閉鎖音

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In the present investigation, laryngeal features of the syllable final stops-p, -t, -k and- in the two Southern Chinese dialects of Cantonese and South Min were studied by fiberoptic observation of the larynx.
The basic laryngeal feature of final stops in Southern Chinese is an adducted gesture of the glottis with an increased degree of supraglottic laryngeal constriction after the oral implosion. This type of laryngeal gesture is referred to as “glottalization” in the present paper. In corticulation with ensuing sounds, however, the glottalized gesture disappears and an abducted gesture of the glottis is observed when the ensuing sound is any voiceless consonants except for /h/. Such types of coarticulatory gesture can be interpreted purely in terms of phonetics.
Finally, a cross-language comparison was made between Southern Chinese and Korean in reference to the laryngeal features of syllable final stops. Some recent studies have clarified that final stops in Korean are characterized by a small glottal opening, rather than glottalization. It is assumed that the different manners of laryngeal gesture found between geneologically unrelated languages may be a segmental manifestation of a difference at the suprasegmental level