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Imitation of F0 tone contours by Mandarin and English speakers is both categorical and continuous 普通话和英语使用者对F0音调轮廓的模仿既有绝对的，也有连续的

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101457

Wei Zhang , Meghan Clayards , Morgan Sonderegger

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F0 derivatives in the classification of meaningful tonal movements F0阶导数在有意义的调性动作分类中

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101454

Constantijn Kaland

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Effects of minimal pair competitors on voice onset time and pitch accent production in South Swedish 最小对竞争者对瑞典南部语音开始时间和音高重音产生的影响

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101445

Benjamin M. Kramer, Jason A. Shaw

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Transitory and sustained Cf0 effects: Evidence from Swiss German 短暂和持续的Cf0效应：来自瑞士德语的证据

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101453

Franka Zebe-Sheng , Camille Watter , Stephan Schmid , D. Robert Ladd

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How pitch gestures facilitate L2 lexical tone learning: The role of L1–L2 perceptual assimilation in Mandarin speakers’ acquisition of Thai tones 音高手势如何促进二语词汇语调学习：L1-L2知觉同化在普通话使用者泰语语调习得中的作用

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101460

Keke Yu , Jie Zhang , Zilong Li , Xuliang Zhang , Yiyuan He , Li Li , Ruiming Wang

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Cross-linguistic similarity in L2 suprasegmental learning: evidence from Chinese learners’ perception of Japanese pitch accents 二语超片段学习中的跨语言相似性：来自中国学习者对日语音高口音感知的证据

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101458

Yu Yang , Longjie Dong , Quansheng Xia , Yuxiao Yang , Fei Chen

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Gestural restructuring beyond coarticulation in Korean /w/-vowel sequences: Evidence from phonetic, dialectal, and gender variation 韩语/w/-元音序列的手势重组超越协同发音：来自语音、方言和性别差异的证据

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101456

Dae-yong Lee , Sahyang Kim , Taehong Cho

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Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians 在R中使用brms的贝叶斯beta回归：语音专家教程

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101455

Stefano Coretta , Paul Bürkner

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Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change – A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan Catalan 马略坎加泰罗尼亚语/k/前音的比较声学研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101430

Miquel Simonet , Marta Ramírez Martínez , Francesc Torres-Tamarit

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Phonetic information in the vowel spectrum: the meaning of mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients 元音谱中的语音信息：mel-Frequency倒谱系数的意义

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101434

Khalil Iskarous , Alessandro Vietti

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