The Southwestern Mandarin /n/-/l/ Merger: Effects on Production in Standard Mandarin and English
Southwestern Mandarin is one of the most important modern Chinese dialects, with over 270 million speakers. One of its most noticeable phonological features is an inconsistent distinction between the pronunciation of (n) and (l), a feature shared with Cantonese. However, while /n/-/l/ in Cantonese h...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-08-01
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.639390/full |