{ "term": "string", "language": "string (Japanese | Korean | Mandarin | Pan-Asian)", "romanization": "string", "literal_translation": "string", "bme_definition": "string", "usage_context": "string", "related_terms": ["string"], "content_references": ["string"], "first_published": "date", "last_updated": "date" }

Tonal Segmentation

Literal Translation
The developing ability to identify individual words in natural Mandarin speech — finding where one word ends and the next begins in a continuous tonal stream.