COARTICULATIONANDAPPLICATION OF LATERALIN STANDARD CHINESE IN SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION

Lateral is one of the four voiced consonants in Standard Chinese and it often displays many variants in pronunciation because of different following vowels. It’s distribution of formant frequency changes greatly with different vowels and assumes strong coarticulation. It is suggested that the coarticulation is different from person to person. Whereas lateral has relative stability and value of formant frequency of the same speaker assumes relative stable state. Therefore, the individual features of the coarticulation may be anticipated in speaker’s sound. The aim of the article is to study coarticulation of lateral with different vowels, it’s behavior in different speakers and application in speaker identification. 1