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Using and Citing Data

If you are interested in using the TonePerfect data in a project of your own, we'd love to hear from you! Please complete this form to request the Tone Perfect dataset, and a member of the Tone Perfect team will be in touch soon.

If you cite TonePerfect in your own work, please use one of the following citation options.

To cite the database as a whole:
Catherine Ryu, Mandarin Tone Perception & Production Team, and Michigan State University Libraries. Tone Perfect: Multimodal Database for Mandarin Chinese. Accessed 1 January 2022. https://tone.lib.msu.edu/
Or, to cite individual sounds:
Catherine Ryu, Mandarin Tone Perception & Production Team, and Michigan State University Libraries. "mā by FV1." Tone Perfect: Multimodal Database for Mandarin Chinese. Accessed 1 January 2022. https://tone.lib.msu.edu/tone/1187