• Third tone sandhi rule: T3 (213) → T2 (35)/__ T3 (213) lau 213-pan 213 → lau 35-pan 213 "boss" It has been shown that Cantonese speakers acoustically differed from Beijing Mandarin speakers in their application of two Mandarin tone sandhi rules (Chen et al., 2017).
cantonese speakers preferred to neutralize the sandhi Tone 3 more with Tone 2 in isolation which indicated a more categorical application of the third tone sandhi rule.