Speaker variability in the production of coarticulated tones
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Previous studies on lexical tone as a speakerdiscriminant feature focused mainly on tone production in isolation or with a fixed tonal context. The present study reports an experiment on the production of Cantonese and Mandarin tones in different tonal contexts and speaking rates. Results show that while speakers show considerable variation in tone production in both languages, speaking rate and tonal context also play a role in the speaker-discriminating power of tone.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015