drawing my attention to this passage.
(12)The data come originally from McNeill (1966: 69). No age is given for the child.
(13)These are the terms used by Gibson (1760), on which see further Chapter 5 of Joseph (2006).
(14)The four-tone system of Mandarin is generally represented in Roman transcription with an accent mark over the vowel, and the nine-tone system of Cantonese with the number of the tone in superscript at the end of the word.
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