The nature of left- and right-dominant sandhi in Shanghai Chinese—Evidence from the effects of speech rate and focus conditions

•The right-dominant sandhi is a phonetic reduction of the non-final tones.•The left- and right-dominant sandhis are composed of different prosodic structures.•Contrastive focus and slow speech rate are implemented through different mechanisms. This study compared the f0, duration and intensity patte...

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