The Phonetics of Mandarin Tones in Conversation

Mandarin tone categories are universally thought to center on pitch information, but previous work (Berry, 2009; Brenner, 2013) has shown that pitch cues reduce in the conversational context, as do the other concurrent cues such as duration or intensity that secondarily signal tone categories. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brenner, Daniel Scott
Other Authors: Warner, Natasha
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578721