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This paper throws a question whether Chinese vowel /e/[] is a monophthong or a diphthong. It is generally accepted amongst phoneticians that Chinese vowel /e/ is pronounced as a diphthong [ə] in everyday life. However, Chinese and Taiwanese Ministries of Education regulate and many Chinese scholars claim that this vowel is a monophthong. To examine why this kind of confusion has arisen, we carried out a production test of this Chinese vowel against Chinese and Taiwanese female subjects and a perception test of the identical vowel with Korean females who can speak Chinese, Chinese and Taiwanese female subjects. The results of the production test showed that there was a discrepancy of the independent /e/ productions between Chinese and Taiwanese subjects. This is because Chinese subjects showed [ə] or [] productions while Taiwanese subjects produced only []. This outcome seemed to reveal that Chinese speakers have two versions of /e/ pronunciation while Taiwanese speakers possess only one version of /e/ pronunciation, []. The outcome of the perception test showed more evidence of the different pronunciations of /e/ between Chinese and Taiwanese subjects. While Taiwanese and Korean subjects clearly distinguished the difference between the monophthong [] and the diphthong [ə], Chinese subjects could not pick up the characteristic of the diphthong [ə] and they perceived it as []. It can be claimed that Chinese people treat /e/ as a monophthong in phonemic level while they produce this vowel as [ə] or [] in phonetic level.

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1. 서론
 2. 모음의 음향적 특징
 3. 산출실험
  3.1 실험 방법
  3.2 실험 결과
 4. 인지실험
  4.1 실험 방법
  4.2 인지실험 결과
 5. 결론 및 제언
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 [Abstract]

저자

• 박시균 [ See-Gyoon Park | 군산대학교 국어국문학과 ] 제1저자 및 교신저자
• 김지영 [ Ji-Young Kim | 군산대학교 국어국문학과 ] 참여저자

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