Production and Perception of Tone 3 Focus in Mandarin Chinese.

Although non-final positions had greater mean pitch values than final positions, the effect of string position on mean pitch showed a positive trend but failed to achieve a customary level of statistical significance ( X 2 = 2.80, df = 1, p = 0.09, R 2 = 0.253) 5 .

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Examining the results given in Table 3 , we can say that tone 3 digits indeed produced a relatively smaller pitch range expansion in marking prosodic focus, although the difference between tone 2 and tone 3 foci is marginally significant.

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