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Lexical tones, which involve specific pitch contours that differentiate word meanings, are fundamental to tonal languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese. In both languages, subtle variations in pitch, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, using intracranial recordings, researchers investigated the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin speakers. They ...

This paper investigates the phonetic specification of contour tones through a case study of the Mandarin rising tone. The patterns of variation in the realisation of the rising tone as a function of ...

In this video, I compare the standard Mandarin Chinese pronunciation with the Beijing accent for several everyday words. I ...

We've had lots of fun sharing photos of Chengdu with you through this blog, but today, something for the ears. As any student of Mandarin Chinese will know, China can be a maddening place. You can ...