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A corpus-based investigation of pitch contours of monosyllabic words in conversational Taiwan Mandarin
Xiaoyun Jin, Mirjam Ernestus, R. Harald Baayen
In Mandarin, the tonal contours of monosyllabic words produced in isolation or in careful speech are characterized by four lexical tones: a high-level tone (T1), a rising tone (T2)…
Is deeper always better? Replacing linear mappings with deep learning networks in the Discriminative Lexicon Model
Maria Heitmeier, Valeria Schmidt, Hendrik P. A. Lensch +1
Recently, deep learning models have increasingly been used in cognitive modelling of language. This study asks whether deep learning can help us to better understand the learning p…
Form and meaning co-determine the realization of tone in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech: the case of T2-T3 and T3-T3 tone sandhi
Yuxin Lu, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
In Standard Chinese, Tone 3 (the dipping tone) becomes Tone 2 (rising tone) when followed by another Tone 3. Previous studies have noted that this sandhi process may be incomplete,…
Word-specific tonal realizations in Mandarin
Yu-Ying Chuang, Melanie J. Bell, Yu-Hsiang Tseng +1
The pitch contours of Mandarin two-character words are generally understood as being shaped by the underlying tones of the constituent single-character words, in interaction with a…