Incremental text-to-speech synthesis with prefix-to-prefix framework

M Ma, B Zheng, K Liu, R Zheng, H Liu, K Peng… - ar** tone) becomes Tone 2 (rising tone) when followed
by another Tone 3. Previous studies have noted that this sandhi process may be incomplete …

Encoding category-level and context-specific phonological information at different stages: An EEG study of Mandarin third-tone sandhi word production

X Chen, C Zhang, Y Chen, S Politzer-Ahles, Y Zeng… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Pronunciation of words or morphemes may vary systematically in different phonological
contexts, but it remains unclear how different levels of phonological information are encoded …

Mechanisms of tone sandhi rule application by tonal and non-tonal non-native speakers

S Chen, Y He, R Wayland, Y Yang, B Li… - Speech …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study is the first comprehensive acoustic study to examine the acquisition of two
Mandarin tone sandhi rules: the third tone sandhi and the more phonetically motivated, half …

Perception of different tone contrasts at sub-lexical and lexical levels by Dutch learners of Mandarin Chinese

T Zou, J Caspers, Y Chen - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study explores the difficulties in distinguishing different lexical tone contrasts at both
sub-lexical and lexical levels for beginning and advanced Dutch learners of Mandarin, using …