1.The goal of this study is to examine (1) whether and how the FO contour of a sequence of neutral tones in
Standard Mandarin is affected by the following full tone due to anticipatory tonal coarticulation, (2)
whether and how the degree of anticipatory tonal coarticulation varies as a function of the strength of an
intervening boundary, and(3) whether boundary-conditioned anticipatory tonal coarticulatory variations
can be accounted for by boundary-induced durational changes. (https:// reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/ pii/S0095447020301091?token=1E3FEE161C8C2B0IAD56AD831
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