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Direct linkLiu, Siyun; Samuel, Arthur G. – Language and Speech, 2004
In tone languages, the identity of a word depends on its tone pattern as well as its phonetic structure. The primary cue to tone identity is the fundamental frequency (F0) contour. Two experiments explore how listeners perceive Mandarin monosyllables in which all or part of the F0 information has been neutralized. In Experiment 1, supposedly…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonetics, Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese
