AN ACOUSTICALLY BASED CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF L1 AND L2 NASAL CODA PRODUCTION

The present study adopts an acoustic approach to examine Mandarin speakers' production of Mandarin and English nasal codas /n, ŋ / in different vowel contexts. Its purposes are to explore the interrelationship between nasal codas and the preceding vowels in both L1 and L2 production and to identify and explain similarities and differences between the L1 and L2 production