Connell, B. A., Hogan, J. T., & Rozsypal, A. J. (1983). Experimental evidence of interaction between tone and intonation in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Phonetics, 11, 337-351.
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Summary: Chris
This paper investigated to what degree the shape of a tone in Mandarin Chinese can be changed before it is recognized as a different tone. To simulate sentence-final intonation effects, the authors manipulated the pitch contours by gradually raising or lowering the tones of monosyllabic words in equal intervals. Then, a group of native Chinese speakers were asked to perform tonal identification task. Results showed that confusions between Tone 2 and Tone 3 were very common. When the final F0 height was raised, more Tone 2 responses were elicited from subjects. Furthermore, there was mutual confusion between Tone 1 and Tone 4 when the F0 height of the final portion of Tone 4 was raised. As a result, it was proposed that Tone 1 should be regarded as a high tone rather than a high-level tone since the feature ‘high’ is more crucial for tonal identification. The authors concluded that the recognition of tones is stable over a wide range of pitch contour changes.
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