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For each of the three target words five different stimulus sentences were created. The sentences were ambiguous as to the interpretation of the target as a modal

While there were detailed acoustic differences in tone production, tones with similar contours between the two dialects were basically perceived to be the same, resulting in mapped

(iii) Pelletier (2012) combined with our own hypothesis on linguistic experi- ence: Interpretational consistency is not warranted; under the influence of

(2) Do Dutch and Mandarin Chinese mothers slow down their speaking rates to highlight unfamiliar words in support of word learning?. The first research question concerns whether

Title: Production and perception of tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin Issue

In Tianjin Mandarin, the carryover tonal coarticulation can be observed in all tonal contexts except when the second tone is the low-falling T1 (Zhang & Liu, 2011), while

Then, the activated character activated its syllable (tu4) and facilitated the speech production of the target. Besides drawing evidence from behavioral data, in

‘certainly’) and therefore the sentence is an appropriate continuation in the given context. In stimulus b) zeker remains unaccented and the pitch accent in this