From ta to ha : elision of the alveolar stop in Singapore Mandarin

• Main Author: Sung, Chang Da
• Other Authors: Randy John LaPolla
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonetics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77045
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The third person pronoun in Singaporean Mandarin 他 ta undergoes instances of elision in speech. Aligning with previous studies, this elision, often part of syllable contraction is triggered by environments where the preceding morpheme is an object or a case marker. Co-articulation may also occur wit...