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Previous research on the role of tone information in lexical access in Mandarin Chinese has focused on monosyllabic words. Using corpus data, we show that tone is more informative on Mandarin disyllables than monosyllables. Next, we investigate the role of tone sequences in disambiguating two segmentally identical disyllabic word candidates that differed only in tone. Using a priming paradigm, we show that tone frequency biases lexical decisions. Listeners were presented with a disyllabic sequence that is tonally ambiguous between two lexical entries. When word frequency and tone frequency did not favour the same candidate, a tonally-matched prime reduced the likelihood of picking the candidate with the matching tone. Preliminary results suggest that listeners are sensitive to the overall likelihood of encountering a given sequence of tones in running speech, instead of just tone sequences within disyllabic words.

Tone sequences in lexical processing of Beijing Mandarin