Study on the aspirated characteristics of Chinese Mandarin consonant

The airflow plays an important role in the pronunciation process of Chinese mandarin consonant, mainly in pronunciation methods. On account of the different pronunciation methods, aspirated and unaspirated are two opposite characteristics. It is generally believed that plosives and affricates have obvious aspirated opposites but fricatives, nasals and laterals don't have. In previous studies, there was less research on consonant airflow. In this paper, experimental phonetics method is utilized to research mandarin consonant initials. By analyzing the airflow and voice signal parameters collected by airflow barometer, the airflow parameters of the consonants with different articulation during the pronunciation is obtained, and the airflow characteristic of mandarin consonants is concluded.