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This document provides an articulatory and acoustic analysis of the syllable-initial sibilants and approximant in Beijing Mandarin Chinese. Key findings from palatograms and linguagrams of speakers include: 1) The consonants transcribed as retroflexes [§, t§, 1⁄2( ̈)] are actually apical or upper apical postalveolar [S], [tS], and [ ̈]; 2) Those transcribed as palatals [‚] and [t‚] are laminal or alveolar-postalveolar [S4] and [tS4]; 3) The frequency of spectral energy is highest for [s, ts] and lowest for

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