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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hear Res. 2007 Dec 28;242(1-2):132–140. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.12.010

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Time waveforms (top) and the narrowband spectrograms (bottom) of Mandarin Chinese syllable /shi/ spoken by a native Mandarin-speaking female adult. Panels from left to right show tone patterns 1 through 4. All tone tokens were of the same duration, 0.884 s. The arrows on the right indicate the first and second formants (F1 and F2) extracted in the middle of the vowel using the Praat software (Boersma and Weenink, 2007).