Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts

Yujia Tian; Yanyuan Ye; Mingxi Lu; Fanlu Jia; Ran Tao

Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts

Yujia Tian, Yanyuan Ye, Mingxi Lu, Fanlu Jia, Ran Tao

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Month:: December
Year:: 2025
Address:: Hanoi, Vietnam
Editors:: Chu-Ren Huang, Yasunari Harada, Jong-Bok Kim, Nguyen T.M. Huyen, Le Thanh Huong, Pham Hien, Emmanuele Chersoni, Le Minh Nguyen, Rachel Edita Oñate Roxas, Sherly Dita
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Cite (ACL):: Yujia Tian, Yanyuan Ye, Mingxi Lu, Fanlu Jia, and Ran Tao. 2025. Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts. In Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 89–96, Hanoi, Vietnam. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts](https://aclanthology.org/2025.paclic-1.8/) (Tian et al., PACLIC 2025)

Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts (Tian et al., PACLIC 2025)

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Yujia Tian, Yanyuan Ye, Mingxi Lu, Fanlu Jia, and Ran Tao. 2025. Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts. In Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 89–96, Hanoi, Vietnam. Association for Computational Linguistics.