Vietnamese Vowels Produced by Australian Vietnamese Speakers

Dao Muc Dich; Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

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Vietnamese Vowels Produced by Australian Vietnamese Speakers

Dao Muc Dich, Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 26 August 2015 Accepted: 2 September 2015 Published: 14 September 2015

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Abstract

This paper reported a study that acoustically examined the vowel features of Vietnamese language used by the Vietnamese community in Australia. Vowels produced by older (n=10) and younger (n=10) Vietnamese Australians residing in Brisbane, Australia, were acoustically examined and compared with those produced by corresponding older (n=10) and younger (n=10) Vietnamese residing in Ho Chi Minh/Can Tho City, Vietnam. The results showed that (i) almost all vowel tokens produced by the four groups of speakers were acoustically significantly different in vowel space; (ii) the Younger Vietnamese Australian residents’ tokens of vowels which look similar in conventional Vietnamese orthography tended to cluster with each other; (iii) the vowel productions of the Younger Vietnamese residents in Australia tended to occupy higher and/or more front regions than those of the Younger Vietnamese residents in Vietnamese group in terms of the acoustic vowel space; and (iv) the vowel tokens produced by the Older Vietnamese residents in Australia and Older Vietnamese residents in Vietnam groups occupied different regions in the acoustic vowel space.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20150305.14
Page(s)	298-306
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Vietnamese, Immigrant Language, Phonetics, Language Contact, Language Ship

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Faculty of Vietnamese Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

Freelancer, Queensland, Australia

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