Effects of high variability phonetic training on monosyllabic and disyllabic Mandarin Chinese tones for L2 Chinese learners (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas). Center for Asian Studies. 303 ...

The data were collected from 48 speakers of Tianjin, who were instructed to pronounce disyllabic sequences as real words based on voice prompts. The results showed that the productivity of the sandhis ...

This process resulted in disyllabic stems which now follow regular inflectional patterns, except under negation. The incorporation of the old adjectives into the modern verbal systems thus represents ...