Southern Min (or Min Nan) Language

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This chapter describes the linguistic resources included in the file nan.zip of the lang folder.

List of phonemes

Consonant Plosives

SPPAS IPA Description
b b voiced bilabial
d d voiced alveolar
p p voiceless bilabial
p_h voiceless bilabial aspirated
t t voiceless alveolar
t_h voiceless alveolar aspirated
k k voiceless velar
k_h voiceless velar aspirated
g g voiced velar

Consonant Fricatives

SPPAS IPA Description
f f voiceless labiodental
s s voiceless alveolar
S ʃ voiceless postalveolar
x x voiceless velar
ss
v v voiced labiodental
z z voiced alveolar
h h voiceless glottal

Consonant Nasals

SPPAS IPA Description
m m bilabial
n n alveolar
N ŋ voiced velar

Consonant Liquids

SPPAS IPA Description
l l alveolar lateral

Semivowels

SPPAS IPA Description
w w voiced labiovelar

Vowels

SPPAS IPA Description
a a open front unrounded
o o close-mid back rounded
O ɔ open-mid back rounded
e e close-mid front unrounded
i i close front unrounded
u u close back rounded
y y close front rounded
@ ə schwa

Nasal vowels

SPPAS IPA
a~ ɑ̃
e~
o~
O~ ɔ̃
u~
i~

Affricates

SPPAS IPA Description
ts t͡s voiceless alveolar
ts_h t͡sʰ voiceless alveolar aspirated
dz d͡z voiced alveolar

Fillers

SPPAS Description
laugh laughter
noise noises, unintelligible speech
dummy un-transcribed speech

Lexicons

The lexicon is (c) Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France: nan.vocab contains a list of 1000 different words; it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Pronunciation Dictionary

The pronunciation dictionary was constructed from the most frequent observed pronunciations of the corpus described below.

It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Acoustic Model

It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.

The acoustic model was trained from a corpus of spontaneous speech. We address special thanks to Sheng-Fu Wang for giving us access to his corpus.

S-F Wang, J. Fon (2013). A Taiwan Southern Min spontaneous speech corpus for discourse prosody, Proceedings of Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France, Eds B. Bigi and D. Hirst, ISBN: 978-2-7466-6443-2, pp. 20-23.