A preliminary phonetic investigation of alphabetic words in Mandarin Chinese

202303 bcwwVersion of RecordRGCOthersWork by the first author was sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Program of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (14JCZ03), and work by the last author was supported by a RGC GRF grant (543512H) and the VariAMU international collaboration project by the Faculty of the Humanities of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.Publishe