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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2023-07-01
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Series: | Laboratory Phonology |
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Online Access: | https://www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/6455/ |