Mandarin

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 …

The Prosody of Sarcasm and its Relationship With Lexical Choices in Mandarin Chinese

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 …