Abstract:This study investigates whether Mandarin listeners integrate a prosody-covarying phonological variable, the Tone 3 sandhi (T3S), into auditory sentence disambiguation. The Mandarin T3S process changes the first of two consecutive low tones (T3) into a rising tone. It applies obligatorily within a foot and optionally across feet. When T3S is optional, it is more likely to apply to T3 syllables across smaller prosodic boundaries than larger ones; the smaller the boundary, the sharper the T3S pitch rise. Particip… Show more
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