Geophysics of Vowel Space in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia

말레이시아어와 인도네시아어 모음 공간의 지형도

  • Published : 2006.05.01

Abstract

This present study investigates the vowels in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia in terms of the first two formant frequencies. For this study, we recruited 30 male native speakers of Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia (15 each) which include 6 vowels (i, e, a, o, u, a) in various contexts. The present study provides a three-dimensional vowel space by plotting F1, F2, and the frequency of datapoints. This study is significant in that the geophysics of vowel space presents yet another view of the vowel space.

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