The paper investigates tone realization in monosyllabic and disyllabic words in Cantonese, Cantonese-spoken Mandarin and Standard Mandarin, focusing on the deviations of tone realization in Cantonese-spoken Mandarin from standard Mandarin in monosyllabic and disyllabic words. The analysis on monosyllabic and disyllabic tone patterns shows that most of the tone deviations in Cantonese-accented M...

careful analysis of the ferdows persian accent showed that the back vowel /a/ changes to front vowel [a] in the first syllable of bi-syllabic words and in the second syllable of tri-syllabic words. however, this does not occur in the last syllable. it was also found that different processes occur before nasals; /a/ changes to [o] before /m/. but before /n/, it changes to [a] in the penult of ...

An eye-tracking study examined the involvement of prosodic knowledge--specifically, the knowledge that monosyllabic words tend to have longer durations than the first syllables of polysyllabic words--in the recognition of newly learned words. Participants learned new spoken words (by associating them to novel shapes): bisyllables and onset-embedded monosyllabic competitors (e.g., baptoe and bap...