Integrating phonological and phonetic aspects of Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi in auditory sentence disambiguation

This study investigates whether Mandarin listeners integrate a prosody-covarying phonological variable, the Chinese Tone 3 sandhi (T3S), into auditory sentence disambiguation. The T3S process changes the first of two consecutive low tones (T3) into a rising tone. It applies obligatorily within a foo...

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Main Authors: Aini Li, Wei Lai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2022-04-01
Series:Laboratory Phonology
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Online Access:https://www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/6416/