The production and perception of Low Tone Alternations in Huaiyuan Chinese Huaiyuan Mandarin is a Mandarin dialect that has three low-tone sandhi rules. T1 (low-falling) and T3 (low falling-rising) sandhis involve changing the first low tone to a mid-rising tone when two low...

When a tone in #Huaiyuan #Chinese changes to sound like another is it a perfect copy, or can listeners still hear a difference? An investigation of tone sandhi suggests that neutralization of perceptual categories can override subtle acoustic differences. doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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