Drawing on previous work which showed that singers in Cantonese transfer contour tone information over to singing, this paper examines whether singers in Mandarin exhibit similar kinds of transfer. Analysis of contour slope, duration and fundamental frequency suggest that Mandarin singers do not transfer these elements of tone to their singing.
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Schellenberg, M. (2012). Tone Realization in Sung Mandarin. Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, (October), 1–3. Retrieved from http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/tal_2012/papers/tl12_O5-01.pdf
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