Identifying generalizable knowledge from the distribution of tonotactic accidental gaps in Mandarin

This study investigates tonotactic accidental gaps (unattested syllable-tone combinations) in Mandarin Chinese. In a corpus study, we found that, independent of syllable type, T2 (rising) and T3 (falling-rising) gaps were over-represented, whereas T1 (high level) and T4 (falling) gaps were under-rep...

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Main Authors: Shao-Jie Jin, Sheng-Fu Wang, Yu-An Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2023-07-01
Series:Laboratory Phonology
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Online Access:https://www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/6455/