Production and Perception of Tone 3 Focus in Mandarin Chinese

This study uses production and perception experiments to explore tone 3 focus in Mandarin Chinese. Overall, contrastive focus in Mandarin is clearly marked with increased duration, intensity, and pitch range: in the experiments, listeners identified focused syllables correctly more than 90% of the t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee, Yong-Cheol, Wang, Ting, Liberman, Mark
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960255/