Anna Mai
annamai.bsky.social
Anna Mai
@annamai.bsky.social
phonology & neuroscience @ MPI Psycholinguistics

see: annamai.net
see also: translinguists.org
It's still a frustrating source text though 🙃
October 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I would say both [Mandarin] and Swedish tone are prosodic in that they're both suprasegmental phonological phenomena. Plus Swedish tone is phonemic! (as in [Mandarin]) One main difference is in how many syllables per word bear a tone (Swedish, Japanese, etc. < Mandarin, Vietnamese, etc.)
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
And feel free to get in touch if you're thinking about applying and want to know more about living & doing language research in Nijmegen!
May 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM