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Direct linkSo, Connie K.; Best, Catherine T. – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naive Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their performance on an identification task, following a brief familiarization task, was analyzed in terms of tonal sensitivities (A-prime scores on correct identifications) and tonal errors…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
