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A Web-based database is developed to provide psycholinguists with a large-scale phonological representation system for all Mandarin Chinese monosyllables. The construction of the system is based on the slot-based phonological pattern generator (PatPho), with an adequate consideration of the language-specific features of the Chinese phonology. Users can retrieve the relevant phonological representations through an interactive query system on the Web. The query outcomes can be saved in a number of formats, such as Excel spreadsheets, for further analyses. This representation system can be used for a variety of purposes—in particular, connectionist language modeling and, more generally, the study of Chinese phonology.
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Preparation of this article was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-0642586) to P.L. The writing of the article was completed while P.L. was working for the NSF. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
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Zhao, X., Li, P. An online database of phonological representations for Mandarin Chinese. Behavior Research Methods 41, 575–583 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.41.2.575
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