Intonation

Early Production of Boundary Tones in Mandarin Declaratives: Contour Clustering of Monolingual and Bilingual Child Speech

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 …

English Lexical Stress Perception by Beijing and Changsha Listeners at Different Proficiency Levels: Support or Hindrance From Vowel Reduction, Duration, and Intonation

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