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

Figure 3

Word-level phonological networks for the monosyllabic word niao3 /nia/, according to (a) the nontonal unsegmented PSN (CGVX), (b) the tonal unsegmented PSN (CGVX_T), (c) the nontonal fully segmented PSN (C_G_V_X), and (d) the tonal fully segmented PSN (C_G_V_X_T). For visualization purposes, (b) was restricted to just 20 visible neighbors due to all CGVX_T values being well over 200.