If a Mandarin Chinese speaker, whose native dialect exhibits extensive tone sandhi, attempts to speak a Mandarin dialect with limited tone sandhi, which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

Overgeneralization of tone sandhi is likely because the speaker's internalized phonological rules from their native dialect will still be applied, therefore leading to incorrect tonal alternations in the new dialect, rather than immediate accurate tone production.

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