The phonetic specification of contour tones: evidence from the Mandarin rising tone

This paper investigates the phonetic specification of contour tones through a case study of the Mandarin rising tone. The patterns of variation in the realisation of the rising tone as a function of speech rate indicate that its specifications include targets pertaining to both the pitch movement an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cho, Hyesun, Flemming, Edward
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113197
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-8038