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"abstract": "The lexical meaning of Chinese words is determined by syllables and lexical tones. Phonologically, there are four full tones. Empirically, however, it remains a puzzle how tones are recognized when they are reduced in natural speech. This article presents three studies on tones of reduced disyllables: (1) a corpus study on disyllabic reduction, (2) two tone categorical identification experiments on fully pronounced and reduced disyllables, and (3) an analysis of word identification responses of two disyllables. Utilizing a segment-aligned corpus, disyllables were classified by ear into four degrees of contraction (from none to full), i.e., where a disyllable is gradiently reduced towards one syllable. The results suggested that the onset of the second syllable was most likely to be shortened or deleted. For studying the lexical effect of tones, a Ganong-style word bias experiment was conducted on T1-T4 continua of three T1-T4 disyllables. Results of the fully pronounced stimuli confirmed that the lexical status of the disyllables affected the tone classification of F0 contours along a continuum from T1 to T4, showing distinct differences of tone identification in real words and nonwords. Then, this effect disappeared when the onset of the second syllable was removed to simulate a partly reduced disyllable. Insufficient segmental information seemed to deactivate the word-nonword contrast, i.e. lexical status seemed to override any acoustic information available. Tones tended to be recognized as those from a real word throughout the continua. Finally, responses to two T1-T4 disyllables from the identification experiment done by Tseng & Lee (2010) were re-analyzed. The results suggested that reduction degree, F0 shapes, word unit type, and exposure frequency seemed to play a role in the recognition of words and tones.",
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"text": "The lexical meaning of Chinese words is determined by syllables and lexical tones. Phonologically, there are four full tones. Empirically, however, it remains a puzzle how tones are recognized when they are reduced in natural speech. This article presents three studies on tones of reduced disyllables: (1) a corpus study on disyllabic reduction, (2) two tone categorical identification experiments on fully pronounced and reduced disyllables, and (3) an analysis of word identification responses of two disyllables. Utilizing a segment-aligned corpus, disyllables were classified by ear into four degrees of contraction (from none to full), i.e., where a disyllable is gradiently reduced towards one syllable. The results suggested that the onset of the second syllable was most likely to be shortened or deleted. For studying the lexical effect of tones, a Ganong-style word bias experiment was conducted on T1-T4 continua of three T1-T4 disyllables. Results of the fully pronounced stimuli confirmed that the lexical status of the disyllables affected the tone classification of F0 contours along a continuum from T1 to T4, showing distinct differences of tone identification in real words and nonwords. Then, this effect disappeared when the onset of the second syllable was removed to simulate a partly reduced disyllable. Insufficient segmental information seemed to deactivate the word-nonword contrast, i.e. lexical status seemed to override any acoustic information available. Tones tended to be recognized as those from a real word throughout the continua. Finally, responses to two T1-T4 disyllables from the identification experiment done by Tseng & Lee (2010) were re-analyzed. The results suggested that reduction degree, F0 shapes, word unit type, and exposure frequency seemed to play a role in the recognition of words and tones.",
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"text": "How tones are recognized in natural conversation remains a puzzle, partly because a number of other factors are acting simultaneously. Some of these factors, for instance pragmatic contextual information and the degree of speech clarity, can be directly observed and manipulated when researchers analyze natural speech. The speaker-and recipient-related individuality, such as their prior experiences about the world, prior experiences about their acquired language, and their speech competence, also are important but difficult to control. This means that the substantial construction of the mental lexicon of a speaker or a group of speakers of a language cannot be investigated in-depth unless we can cope with the variability derived from discrepancies and similarities among individuals, language communities, and their concurrent interaction in speech communication. Working towards this research goal, we made an initial but significant move in this article by beginning to examine the issue of tone recognition in reduced disyllables in Mandarin Chinese. The production and the perception of lexical tones closely and dynamically correlate with the context of lexical constituency. Thus, we first focused on disyllabic words by examining their phonetic forms. Selected disyllabic content words extracted from a corpus of conversational speech were analyzed to obtain typical reduction patterns in terms of reduction degree. The reduction pattern then was applied in our later tone categorical identification experiments to simulate the contrast of fully pronounced and reduced speech. As disyllables with an internal word boundary may not have the same reduction pattern as disyllabic words, we further re-analyzed the responses of a previously conducted word identification experiment, focusing on one disyllabic word and one monosyllabic disyllable to study the role of tone as modulated by the degree of reduction.",
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"text": "The most commonly used speech form is daily face-to-face conversation. The consensus in building natural speech corpora is the belief that we should look at realistic data for studying linguistic patterns and human behavior. The fine (and complex) details in natural speech cannot be thoroughly investigated until annotated speech corpora have been made available for different languages, for instance the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech for German (IPDS, 1995) , the Chinese Annotated Corpus of Spontaneous Speech (Li et al., 2000) , the Spoken Dutch Corpus (Goddijn & Binnenpoorte, 2003) , the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech (Pitt et al., 2006) , the Corpus of Interactional Data for French (Bertrand et al., 2008) , the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (Maekawa, 2009) , and the Taiwan Mandarin Conversational Corpus (Tseng, 2013) . Variation of spoken words has been studied since then on different levels, including segmental, word category, word frequency, and prosodic position. Corpus-based studies are required to provide quantitative empirical description of reduction in natural speech. For instance, using the Buckeye Corpus, Jurafsky et Tones of Reduced T1-T4 Mandarin Disyllables 83 al. (2001) studied the effect of lexical frequency and local contextual information on the probability of reduction for function and content words. They suggested that this shortening process was not necessarily correlated with vowel reduction, but probably with the lexical frequency. Similarly, Meunier & Espesser (2011) analyzed the Corpus of Interactional Data for French. Although not directly affected by the lexical frequency effect, they found that vowel reduction, including duration shortening and vowel centralization, occurred more often in monosyllabic function words than in monosyllabic content words. Both studies addressed the importance of lexical frequency on the surface forms of reduced word in natural speech. This leaves the question of how reduced spoken words are recognized by humans.",
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"text": "A number of psycholinguistic models have been proposed to explain how humans perform the task of spoken word recognition and how words are stored in the mental lexicon, including the phonetic-acoustic form and the associated higher level lexical information. The Cohort Theory, the Interactive-Activation Model (TRACE model), and the Neighborhood Activation Model were the classical models accounting for abstract lexical representation and extraction (Marslen-Wilson, 1987; McClelland & Elman, 1986; Luce & Pisoni, 1998) . The Cohort Theory proposes that spoken word recognition involves both early bottom-up processing mainly utilizing word-initial onsets and late top-down contextual information. The Interactive-Activation Model states that (once the sensory acoustic-phonetic input comes in) different levels of a lexical item are activated, including feature, phoneme, and word. The Neighborhood Activation Model stresses the importance of similarity neighborhood density between words and the relative effects of word frequency on the spoken word recognition. Different from these abstract form extraction models, Lacerda (1995) suggested that prototypes of word forms are stored in memory and discrimination extent is used to filter the best exemplar, which is most similar to the prototype. To some extent, the concept of best exemplar is similar to the concept of episodic memory traces, which may preserve the (most likely) surface phonetic details (Goldinger, 1996) . In speech communication, we constantly encounter different types of phonetic forms of words, which we may classify into phonological variants. Thus, it is not surprising that production frequency of words has some influence on the phonological representation of pronunciation variants, as found by Ranbom & Connine (2007) in their studies on the nasal flap in English.",
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