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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education

Table 4 High vowels in Mandarin, English, Korean, and Japanese (Qian, 2017)

From: Language-dependent cue weighting in distinctive feature: evidence from the perception of Mandarin high vowels by native English speakers

 

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Unrounded

Rounded

Unrounded

Rounded

Mandarin

i

y

 

u

English

i:(tense) ɪ(lax)

  

u(tense) ʊ(lax)

Korean

iㅣ

(yㅟ)

ɯㅡ

uㅜ

Japanese

iイ

 

ɯウ

 
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