Spring-Village Picture Cards for alveolar/retroflex minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese

Different varieties of Chinese spoken around the world are known to differ in the way they pronounce certain words. The Spring Village Picture Cards is a set of stimuli designed to depict words in Mandarin Chinese that differ only in a single phoneme (minimal pairs). 6 minimal pairs were constructed differing only in the place of articulation of the onset consonant (e.g., 村/cūn [tsʰuən1] 'village' and 春/chūn [ʈʂʰuən1] 'spring (season)'). All words feature Tone 1 (steady) and Tone 4 (falling).