The Mandarin Chinese auditory emotions stimulus database: A validated corpus of monosyllabic Chinese characters

M Li, N Li, A Zhou, H Yan, Q Li, C Ma, C Wu - Behavior Research Methods, 2025 - Springer
Auditory emotional rhythm can be transmitted by simple syllables. This study aimed to
establish and validate an auditory speech dataset containing Mandarin Chinese auditory …

The merger of falling tones: A perception study in Taiyuan ** Chinese

Z Liao, L Liang - Lingua, 2025 - Elsevier
Traditionally, there are five lexical tones in Taiyuan dialect including one rising tone and four
falling tones, but previous studies have shown that some speakers merged the four falling …