In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, using intracranial recordings, researchers investigated the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin speakers. They ...

People don’t generally speak in a monotone. Even someone who couldn’t carry a tune if it had a handle on it uses a different melody to ask a question than to make a statement, and in a sentence like ...

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