The effects of high versus low talker variability and individual aptitude on phonetic training of Mandarin lexical tones

High variability (HV) training has been found to be more effective than low variability (LV) training when learning various non-native phonetic contrasts. However, little research has considered whether this applies to the learning of tone contrasts. The only two relevant studies suggested that the...

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Main Authors: Hanyu Dong, Meghan Clayards, Helen Brown, Elizabeth Wonnacott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-08-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7191.pdf