Fig. 8
The effect of proficiency on speaker consistency with regard to the number of variants used in /dz/ realization for the three syllables of multiple tokens, 如 jû ‘person’s name’, å—/二 jÄ« ‘Chinese character; two,’ and å…¥ jÃp ‘to enter’, in a male and b female talkers. Asterisks indicate statistical significance, and asterisks in parentheses indicate near-significance. Error bars represent standard errors. Please see text for explanation