Chinese Intonation: Connecting Linguistics to Acoustics

The model for English

•There are identical boundary tones on every utterance.

•All target shapes are identical, except the focus.

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%X B B B | B A B | B B B B Y%

%X B B B | A B B | B B B B Y%

%X B A B | B B B | B B B B Y%

•Rather simple phonology.


	X, A, B are three accent types.