Phonological Identity of the Neutral-tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin: An Acoustic Study

Taiwan Mandarin, one of the more syllable-timed dialects of Mandarin, has fewer unstressed syllables than Standard Mandarin. Acoustic analyses show that the supposedly unstressed syllables—neutral-tone syllables—in Taiwan Mandarin behave differently from those of Standard Mandarin. Unlike Standard...

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Main Author: Karen HUANG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2018-07-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/7841