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Disambiguation of tonally unspecified Mandarin syllables
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The interpretation of written Mandarin monosyllables presented in tonally unspecified pinyin was investigated for 22 native speakers. Results showed a preference for high relative lexical frequency and, to a lesser extent low homophone density candidates, with some interaction between these two factors: where one candidate in a homophone cohort had a particularly high frequency, cohort density was found to play little or no role in selection. Where the frequency of the two most frequent candi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- International Speech Communication Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody Journal website
- Pages:
- 107-110
- Host title:
- Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012
- Publication date:
- 2012-08-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2012-02-06
- Event location:
- Shanghai
- Source identifiers:
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420489
- ISBN:
- 9787560848693
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-11-25
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- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- This paper was presented at Speech Prosody 2012: Sixth International Conference, Shanghai, China May 22-25, 2012
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