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This paper explores how intonation and lexical tone interact in Mandarin varieties, using boundary phenomena to examine f0 cues for sentence-level functions like questions versus statements, and discusses theoretical models.
This paper presents a corpus-based study showing that the neutral tone in Mandarin Chinese is a lexical tone with its own tonal target, based on phonetic and semantic analyses of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin spoken corpora using generalized additive models and contextualized embeddings.