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To supplement this discussion, this study investigated Mandarin Chinese (MC) speakers\u2019 perception of syllable-final segments (\u2044-\u0440\u2044, \u2044-t\u2044, \u2044-k\u2044, \u2044-m\u2044, \u2044-n\u2044, \u2044-\u014b\u2044, \u2044-\u00d8\u2044) that are undergoing a coronal-dorsal merger (\u2044-t\u2044\u2194\u2044-k\u2044, \u2044-n\u2044\u2194\/-\u014b\/) in Hong Kong Cantonese (HKC). The HKC speakers completed an Identification Test, which confirmed the documented merger of Cantonese syllable-final segments in previous research. A Perceptual Assimilation Test and an Identification Test were prepared for MC speakers to assess their perceptual mapping and perception performance of HKC syllable-final segments. As observed, the MC speakers failed to map the merging HKC \u2044-n\u2044-\u2044-\u014b\u2044 onto the contrastive MC \u2044-n\u2044-\u2044-\u014b\u2044. Moreover, they perceptually collapsed the merging HKC \u2044-t\u2044 and \u2044-k\u2044 into one category via an illicit alteration of the place of articulation. However, neither native Mandarin phonotactic experience nor cross-MC-HKC perceptual similarity can sufficiently explain the MC speakers\u2019 perceptual mapping and rendering of the merging HKC targets. 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