In the past three weeks:

• I spent most of my time getting ready for the wedding and then spending time with our guests.
• I did record the current list of stimuli with my tutor, and threw out some more items. In addition to the category IIB sonorants and obstruents behaving differently, there are some other problems, most of which I think are associated with category IV syllables losing their codas. There are also a couple more items found where they simply use a different word here.
• I finally got an email from my contact from Lanxi, but I was not able to meet with him last week, and he is gone on an internship now.

In the next week:

• I need analyze the recording I have, and go ahead with a semi-final list of stimuli. Even if there are some partial gaps, the cells where there aren’t problems should be sufficient to answer my major research questions about variation, and I need to collect data.
• I need to put together a list of mono-syllables from the disyllable tokens, so I know when there are differences in mono-syllable tone category.
• I need to start scheduling recording sessions for next week.