Constructing the Mandarin Phonological Network: Novel Syllable Inventory Used to Identify Schematic Segmentation

Figure 1

Topological features of each PSN according to (mean degree) and (a) Size (percent of giant component), (b) (mean shortest path length), (c) M (mixing by degree), and (d) (mean clustering coefficient). Units (the number of units within each PSNs’ maximal segmentation schema) is featured within each data point.