Chinese is a tone language. for a tone, the characters of its F0 pitch contours will be quite differnet in the condition of continuant speaking from the isolated speaking. The present researches about the Chinese tone are still centralized on the isolated speaking one, and about tone in fluent speech, there are some statements abot the phenomenon of the two-word, three-word, four-word co-reading, but it can not represent the real characters of the tone in fluent speech very well.
展开▼
