Context Matters for Tone and Intonation Processing in Mandarin

Liu, M; Chen, YY; Schiller, NO

Liu, M (corresponding author), Jinan Univ, Coll Chinese Language & Culture, Room 422,Main Bldg,Shougouling Rd 377, Guangzhou 510610, Guangdong, Peoples R China.; Liu, M (corresponding author), Jinan Univ, Inst Appl Linguist, Room 422,Main Bldg,Shougouling Rd 377, Guangzhou 510610, Guangdong, Peoples R China.

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Abstract

In tonal languages such as Mandarin, both lexical tone and sentence intonation are primarily signaled by F0. Their F0 encodings are sometimes in confl......

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