Abstract
The present study examines acoustic variations of tones in Mandarin under the influence of different tonal contexts. In particular, variations in the four Mandarin tones due to anticipatory and carry-over effects are analyzed by examining the time course off0contours of bi-tonal sequences. Using balanced nonsense sequences produced in different carriers with balanced tonal structures, this study establishes a baseline for local contextual tonal variation in Mandarin. It is found that anticipatory and carry-over tonal influences differ both in magnitude and in nature. Carry-over effects are mostly assimilatory: thestarting f0of a tone is assimilated to theoffsetvalue of a previous tone. Anticipatory effects, on the other hand, are mostly dissimilatory: a lowonsetvalue of a tone raises themaximum f0value of a preceding tone. While the magnitude of the carry-over effect is large, anticipatory effects are relatively small.
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