Table 8.
The distribution of acoustically analyzed Japanese voiced stops and nasals collected from child and adult participants. Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of tokens used for the amplitude analysis.
Consonant | 2;0–2;11 | 3;0–3;11 | 4;0–4;11 | 5;0–5;11 | adult male | adult female |
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b | 34 (6) | 31 (2) | 45 (4) | 34 (0) | 0 | 0 |
m | 29 (24) | 32 (29) | 60 (52) | 45 (42) | 0 | 0 |
d | 18 (8) | 17 (4) | 23 (3) | 17 (2) | 210 (37) | 210 |
n | 34 (31) | 38 (34) | 60 (53) | 49 (48) | 137 (44) | 150 |