Tonal Co-articulation on Particles in Vietnamese Language

Abstract

This paper presents our study on tonal co-articulation of particles which are frequently used in Vietnamese language. The obtained results show that tonal co-articulation phenomenon always takes place at the transition between two adjacent syllables, the progressive co-articulation is the basic tonal co-articulation and there is an influence of the function of particles on form of fundamental frequency contour of Vietnamese tones.