Production of the merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: Preliminary data on monosyllables

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mok, Peggy Pik Ki ^a   Wong, Peggy Wai Yi ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Mergers; Production; Tones

Indexed keywords

CANTONESE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HONG-KONG; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MERGER; MONOSYLLABIC WORDS; NOVEL INTERMEDIATES; TONE;

MERGING;

EID: 85089101153     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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