Previous studies have suggested that young speakers of Changsha Xiang (CSX) may be merging the two low-rising tones, T2 and T6. In the local Mandarin variant (evolved from Xiang-Mandarin contact) they use every day, namely, Changsha Plastic Mandarin (CPM), the low-rising surface tone encompasses CSX T2 words, CSX T6 words, and sandhi T3 words. This study investigated how CSX–CPM bilinguals realise and represent these categories through contrastive hyperarticulation in the context of tone merger, sandhi alternation, and bilingual phonology …

This preliminary study investigated how Mandarin-speaking children, monolingual and bilingual, acquire boundary tones during the second year of life, using a contour clustering approach. It showed that the developmental trajectories may be shaped by lexical tone category and children’s linguistic profile …

This study investigated the exploitation of acoustic cues (syllable duration and F0 contour) in perceiving Changsha stress, and revealed that both cues provided facilitation to the discerning of stress patterns. However, the effect of F0 contour weighs more than that of syllable duration …

This study sought to determine if in the production of Mandarin Tone 2 words by Changsha Mandarin speakers, discrimination is made between words going into the yang-ping/ru-sheng divides in Changsha Xiang …

This study tested the effects of three acoustic/segmental correlates, f0, duration, and vowel reduction on non-native perception of English stress …

This study studied the prosody of sarcasm in Mandarin Chinese. Different conversation scenarios were designed in the current study to elicit sarcastic and non-sarcastic recordings from native speakers of Beijing Mandarin …